From Cliff Kincaid:
Lewis Lapham, the liberal, anti-Bush editor of Harper's magazine, has been exposed for journalistic fraud. He has egg all over his face for writing a story about the content of the speeches at the Republican National Convention before the event was held and the speeches were given. Without knowing what he was talking about, he blasted the speeches as the same old "hollow rattle of the rhetorical brass and tin" that is "preached from the pulpits of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal." Lapham has since apologized for what he's calling a "rhetorical invention," use of "poetic license," and a "mistake."Writer Nick Schulz says the only "mistake" Lapham made was in "revealing for all to see what has long been known by anyone who pays attention to the news: the major media routinely bring to their coverage of significant political events a predetermined storyline…" He explains, "For the editor of Harper's and other establishment press figures, it really makes no difference to them what will be said at Madison Square Garden because the Laphams are already set, loaded in the scribblers' word processors and television anchor teleprompters and ready to go."
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