The right-wingers are not going to stop, but the Obama administration can stop cowering in terror at Glenn Beck and professional journalists can do their jobs — they can check facts before running stories.
Sharon Robinson
Piqua
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Re “Surely we can flush this right-wing slimefest now,” July 26: Thank you for running the E. J. Dionne column on right-wing propagandists, the Obama administration responses, and the media’s culpability.
Many years ago, I did my master’s thesis on the Wisconsin press and Joe McCarthy. My conclusion was that “he said/she said” journalism is not objective when one “said” is patently and verifiably untrue.