Reply #2: The Beck reaction: So what?

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Now that it's "out there," the media aren't going to go to all the time and trouble to say that what they're reporting is a lie. That's just too hard and complicated. Let's just say that there are differing numbers out there, and let it go at that. However, when the subject is something they want to debunk, they'll go through any number of logical gymnastics and linguistic gyrations to "prove" that Al Gore is a liar or Michael Moore took a shortcut to the truth.

Thank you, Media Matters anyway; someday your efforts at bringing the news media back to journalism. But that day won't come anytime soon.