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Media critic Cathy Seipp dings today's L.A. Times front pager on that domestic terror plot in Texas for quoting a journalism professor unpopular with the right.
And why, you may ask, is a journalism professor a source for a piece about the dangers of domestic terrorism compared to international terrorism? Well, because this is that Robert Jensen, the one who never met a Noam Chomsky notion he didn't like...Going to journalism professors for quotes is lame enough when the story is actually about journalism. When the story is about a bomb plot, though....that's beyond absurd.
She otherwise likes the story. Though it seems she skewers reporter Scott Gold for a fact not in evidence, as the lawyers would say -- that he "thinks anyone against abortion is nuts." That's apparently based on one story he wrote that was the subject last year of LAT editor John Carroll's much-discussed "liberal bias" memo.