<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6550791a-8557-47ee-835c-235f5018063e/6F14117C-9A9A-4B98-8697-BE6500FE9BD1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet" style="font-size: 11px;">newsbusters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet"><H2 class="page-title">62 Journalistic Sins or Why Marvin Kalb Is Wrong About the Internet</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet"><P>Randall Hoven at <A target="_blank" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/08/its_not_just_scott_beauchamp.html">American Thinker</A> has a catalog of over 60 instances of journalistic malfeasance and takes to task journalist Marvin Kalb's famous lament from 1998 that the Internet would usher in an era of damage to the media's ability to put forward "reliable, substantiated information." Below are 10 of the 62 Hoven cites: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet"><DIV>I leave it to you to judge whether the internet damaged "journalism's ability to do its job professionally", as Marvin Kalb accuses, or if the internet has in fact helped expose an already damaged "profession".</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6894934/">Associated Press</A> (AP) (2005). Fell for hoax and phony photo. The AP ran a story, with a photo, about a soldier held hostage in Iraq. The photo turned out to be that of an action figure doll; there was no such soldier.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet"><A href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp">Scott Beauchamp</A>, The New Republic (2007). Lying. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet"><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/biden.htm">Joe Biden</A>, U.S. Senator and candidate for President (1988). Plagiarism.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2007/08/16/62-journalistic-sins-or-why-marvin-kalb-wrong-about-internet"><A href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0910FA395B0C728DDDAC0894DB404482">Jayson Blair</A>, The New York Times (2003). 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