Thursday, February 22, 2018

Vilification and Vindication

 
“It’s a time of both crisis and triumph for responsible news media. Of vilification and vindication. They’re attacked almost daily as purveyors of ‘fake news’ to undermine their credibility. Yet they’ve delivered on their promise to keep the American public informed. Without them, we wouldn’t know what’s going on in Myanmar or Yemen or Charlottesville or Washington. Without them, there’d be no Mueller investigation.”
 
John Darnton, journalist and curator of the Polk Awards, announcing a Special Polk Award to the New York Times and the Washington Post for their coverage of Russian connections with the Trump campaign, Feb. 20, 2018. 

Editorial Comment: NYT and WaPo — also tops on CheetoHead’s enemies list.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

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