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The new coverage of Richard Jewell is a case in point. In its lead staff editorial on Tuesday, The New York Times laid nearly all the blame for the unjust treatment of Richard Jewell at the FBI's doorstep. They characterized the media's pursuit of Jewell and the stakeout...
The saga of Richard Jewell, onetime Olympic hero turned bomber suspect reached its conclusion this week, as the FBI cleared him in their continuing investigation, pending further evidence. The news came 88 days after The Atlanta Journal fingered Jewell as the focus of the FBI's probe. Frenzied media hype...
Richard Jewell's ordeal should remind us how quickly our news media can turn into tools of gossip and slander. The news media has a right and a responsibility to report on issues that concern us as citizens. That includes the right and the responsibility to report on law enforcement...
The FBI, however, had solid grounds for suspecting Jewell, as the Times' own reporter made clear. Jewell's mysterious absence from his post the night of the bombing, the odd statements he had made to friends in the preceding days and his rudimentary bomb training warranted attention. Jewell was a...
The news media are active participants in our society. Newspaper editors and TV anchors who often claim that they are neutrally reporting on decisions made by other people are at best disingenuous; at worst, they are liars. When a newspaper writes a story it is (or should be) deciding that...