Bernick's drive-by
Deseret News political editor Bob Bernick opened up on two senators who wrote a column last week on the DNews editorial page criticizing Bernick and Lee Davidson's article that alleged rampant lawmaker conflicts of interest in sponsoring bills that would affect their professions.
Majority Leader Curt Bramble and Minority Leader Mike Dmitrich's column accused Bernick of shoddy journalism and worse ethics: "This is not the first time he has reported his opinion as fact. H
e knows better. Or he should know better."
Besides being an editor and reporter, Bernick writes a weekly opinion column on politics — which requires a shifting between objective reporting and opinion that has been criticized by some law makers in the past. In this case, the column gave Bernick a unique opportunity to mix it up – and he got personal:
Majority Leader Curt Bramble and Minority Leader Mike Dmitrich's column accused Bernick of shoddy journalism and worse ethics: "This is not the first time he has reported his opinion as fact. H
e knows better. Or he should know better."Besides being an editor and reporter, Bernick writes a weekly opinion column on politics — which requires a shifting between objective reporting and opinion that has been criticized by some law makers in the past. In this case, the column gave Bernick a unique opportunity to mix it up – and he got personal:
The two fine public servants accused me, among other things, of having poor journalistic ethics. I'll put my journalistic ethics up against these two public servants' political ethics any day. ...
... guess who was the top dog in taking lobbyists' gifts in 2007? Yep, that fine public servant Dmitrich. A man who has never seen a free golf game or Jazz ticket he didn't like. ...
Guess who was third in the overall gift-taking list? Right again, that fine public servant Bramble, who was just slightly in less need of freebies than Dmitrich.Oh, and how much in gifts did I take from individuals or groups trying to influence my reporting in 2007? Zero. Nada. Nothing.
You might be thinking it will be uncomfortable for Bernick, sometimes called the "Dyspeptic Dean" of political reporting, to cover the Senate for the rest of the session. Though he has oversight of all DNews political coverage, Bernick only reports on the House.
2 Comments:
HOW CLEVER. A MEDIA DIS-INFO OPERATION. Now I’m startng to get it, ……..yeah..okay.
The deviant sex practitioners conspired with their media allies (with a wink from local dems) to attack Buttars on any trumped up pretext in order derail the deviant sex marriage bill.
Good one…fake up a claim of racism…after all that is the kiss of death. That would scare anyone. The deviant sex media types and their supporters start using the big lie technique developed by the german nazis.
I t doesn’t matter that Buttars didn”t say anything improper…..because a carefully orchestrted media distortion op will keep the dumb masses in a state of congitive dissonace.
But here is the bad part: Some of the public are not quite so stupid. They might even be making a list of the cooperative media outfits for future reference. What if they find out about our “free” (free from anticompetive regulation championed by Theodore Rossevelt) media is not so free after all?
After all, the controlled media is going down the tubes financially just through lack of quality and intelligence by staff.
Good for you Bernick! Both those YaHoos should be replaced. Gene Davis and Greg Curtis should go too.
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