Excerpt from Matt Taibbi’s latest article, “Eat Me, MSNBC: Reviewing the last six years at the network that claims now to be concerned with integrity and accuracy“:
[Corporate news outlets] could either keep doing what reporters had done since the beginning of time, confining themselves to saying things they could prove. Or, they could adopt a new approach, in which you can say anything is true or confirmed, so long as a politician or intelligence official told you it was.