The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo
Regardless on your opinions of the memo, this article nails it right on the head; Gizmodo and other major news outlets handled this <i>very</i> irresponsibly, posting their version that had no citations, and leading the reader, even at the very beginning, into forming the opinion that this was simply a guy being "anti-diversity".<p>Whatever your thoughts on the subject are, it needs to be pointed out that this type of journalism is absolutely <i>not</i> neutral (even though they will swear up and down that they are) and should be, at the very least, condemned for doing so. This is and will be an increasingly difficult problem, especially when people just read a headline and a summary.