Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves

Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves: "How perfect! Something for us to talk about during the slow-news summer! I mean, we could talk about the nation's unemployment crisis, but that would mean we'd have to talk to poor, jobless people, and there's no currency in having access to a bunch of poors. Right away, they accepted the premise that this was a 'Ground Zero mosque,' when it wasn't. And so, by the power vested in the media, things that weren't in fact true were accorded the privilege of being 'one side of a great debate' and 'an interesting point of view.'"