Just because a story sounds good, it ought to be right, it should be right… but isn’t BACKED UP WITH FACTS… that story is WRONG. Nothing complicated there.
IF (big if) Gilligan had done a REAL REPORTING JOB as a SERVICE to his readers, listeners, consumers of his journalism…. THEN Lessig would have an argument.
You can’t have a Jayson Blair and pretend they are Woodward and Bernstein! (more steak, less sizzle.)
Just because a story sounds good, it ought to be right, it should be right… but isn’t BACKED UP WITH FACTS… that story is WRONG. Nothing complicated there.
IF (big if) Gilligan had done a REAL REPORTING JOB as a SERVICE to his readers, listeners, consumers of his journalism…. THEN Lessig would have an argument.
You can’t have a Jayson Blair and pretend they are Woodward and Bernstein! (more steak, less sizzle.)
Stephen Pollard was a much better read.
http://www.stephenpollard.net/001426.html