Titlewave: That Solms is a better leader of Wave than SKS was, is certainly true. On the other hand, he does not exactly have big shoes to fill. He has picked his chief of staff and we can debate whether the baggage Patton carries is favorable or unfavorable to Wave. I just don't see how the hiring of Patton helps Wave at this point--but I will certainly give him a chance.
About your comments on journalists--I believe you are mistaken. I was a journalist for 40 years in print and in broadcast and not once, in working for four newspapers and two TV stations and numerous free lance assignments for the networks, did anyone ever tell me "what the slant was" on any story. If they did, I would have quit.
Some journalists do make errors--some accidentally and some perhaps on purpose. But that does not mean all reporting is so fatally biased it can not be believed.
Journalists are held in wide disdain; some of that is legitimate and some is mistaking the messenger for the message. But believe it or not, the vast majority try to get it right. Still, there are mistakes and there are corrections.
Perfection is the ideal--seldom reached--but it is a goal most journalists strive for.
Wave is the prototypical case. Many supporters of Wave refused to believe the hard evidence accumulating indicating mismanagement of Wave under SKS and Feeney. Some still don't believe it, despite the evidence.
Just as we have differing opinions about the status of Wave, some based on evidence, and some based on other things, so too, do people like or dislike the coverage of an event or an incident. Mistakes may be made, bad ones, sometimes, but usually they are uncovered. Reporters who cause more than a few corrections, usually do not last long in the job.
Perhaps we can take this debate elsewhere, since it too, ranges far afield of what this board is for.
Best wishes--Blue
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