The Prosecution Rests
In the comments box under another article, I was having a discussion with my pal John House about bias in the media. Well, not a discussion, exactly, but an exchange of words, where I would say something about the topic, and he would make an ad hominem attack without addressing the topic. He did not say that there was not a bias, he said that everyone has to define his own truth, and that I was a snob if I objected to dishonesty in the newspaper business.
Well, as if to pound the last nail into the coffin of media credibility, the Washington Post has today published an article admitting that they were in the tank for Obama.
As I recall, Dan Rather made a similar admission a little ways back. This is what we lawyers call ‘a statement against interest.’ It is an exception to the hearsay rule. Third party comments are admissible as evidence when they are statements against interest, the theory being that the main and common motivation for lying is absent when a person says something damaging to himself.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
