Letters to the Editor

Why is Brit Hume treated like a real journalist and news anchor? Glenn Greenwald [2007-02-19]

• More on Hume's "real journalistic" reputation

  Glenn was too kind to mention it, but people like Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's media/politics critic, have been doing puff pieces on him forever. From an article in the WaPo :

  Hume is no partisan brawler in the mold of some of Fox's high-decibel hosts. By virtue of his investigative background, his understated style and his management role, he represents a hybrid strain: conservatives who believe in news, not bloviation, but news that passes through a different lens, filtered through a different set of assumptions.

  ...

  Sometimes Hume can stretch things to make a point. In August 2003, he reported that "U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California, which is roughly the same geographical size." The problem: California's population of 34 million people compared with 145,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Hume later agreed it was a "crude comparison."

  You see, he has different "filters" (read: outrageous obvious biases) and occasionally "stretches" the truth (read: lies through his teeth).

  -- jfabermit
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