Random Acts of Journalism

Digby found a television news guy actually checking facts

For those of you who can’t play the video, here’s the transcript.

Libby Spencer at The Impolitic cites another recent example of a journalist checking facts, and speculates we are at the beginning of a trend. That’s way premature, I say. But the biggest reason I started blogging was the way right-wing goons could get on television and tell any lies they wanted, and the so-called moderators would sit there silently and not even raise an eyebrow. So it’s always good to see these little glimmers of factuality break through the fog..