Your Assertions Are Ignorant; Mine Are Facts!
“The 13 Pulitzers won under (John Carroll’s) leadership were part of the boilerplate of every article published about his retirement last week. Critics have been ridiculing this factoid, as though it conceals some darker truth, such as that the paper’s supposed liberalism has contributed to a circulation decline. Leaving aside the fact that this latter assertion is nothing but an ignorant partisan trope …”
- The Los Angeles Times‘ Michael Hiltzik, guest blogging at the Washington Monthly’s blog Political Animal.
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(more Hiltzikia here)
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