Should Media 'Call a Duck a Duck'? Top Web News Director Says Yes: "Love it or hate it, you don't see this kind of this frank assessment and self-criticism in the 'mainstream' media very often, even in this age of obsesssive Web opining and blogging. But Dick Meyer, editorial director of CBS.News.com, based in Washington, has raised eyebrows with a piece on his Web site titled, 'Good Riddance to the Gingrichites.'
Consider the opening: 'This is a story I should have written 12 years ago when the 'Contract with America' Republicans captured the House in 1994. I apologize.
'Really, it's just a simple thesis: The men who ran the Republican Party in the House of Representatives for the past 12 years were a group of weirdos. Together, they comprised one of the oddest legislative power cliques in our history. And for 12 years, the media didn't call a duck a duck, because that's not something we're supposed to do.
'I'm not talking about the policies of the Contract for America crowd, but the character. I'm confident that 99 percent of the population — if they could see these politicians up close, if they watched their speeches and looked at their biographies..."
Yep. Should've said then. But now is never too late.
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