While watching the mass media coverage of the events surrounding South Ossetia, one gets the sense that the concepts of “balance” and “objectivity” have been eliminated from contemporary journalism. Little is being done to verify the information supplied by the Georgian authorities, and while the Russian party is far from innocent, the media’s failure to ask the most basic questions and glaring discrepancies in its coverage make it even harder to dot the “I’s.”
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