Common Dreams: Credulous Reporting of Deceptive Propaganda Made Planned Parenthood Attack Inevitable

Screen Shot 2015-12-16 at 11.10.31 AMJim Naureckas’ piece (12/12/15) on establishment media uncritically promoting right-wing deception was picked up by Common Dreams (12/14/15):

Rather than criticizing O’Keefe and Breitbart for perpetrating a hoax, leading corporate media outlets suggested apologetically that they should have done more to spotlight the misleading story. New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt (9/27/09) warned that if papers like his miss such stories, they might “wind up looking clueless or, worse, partisan.”

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