Word: wrongfulness
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...long ago, as much because of audience sophistication as because of any failings of the media. The new-media-era covenant goes like this: we'll gratify you instantly--would you have kept watching a channel that waited half an hour to report anything?--and if we get it wrong, well, whoops!, stuff happens. In exchange, you get a new transparency: unfiltered access, not just to source material (like the Starr Report, the decision almost immediately went online) but to the journalistic process. Viewers Tuesday got to see the messy, imperfect metamorphosis through which conjecture coalesces into fact...
...EVERY WRONG HAS A LEGAL REMEDY...
America's confidence in the Supreme Court is, Justice Breyer wrote in his dissent, a "public treasure." But popular support for the court depends on citizens' believing it is an institution that makes principled decisions of law--not merely partisan choices. And every major decision the court gets wrong does lasting damage to its standing. The court has made mistakes in other critical moments in our nation's history, and it has never completely lived them down: the Dred Scott decision in 1857, upholding slavery, and Koramatsu v. United States, which approved the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...
...thesis proved wrong. Bush did what he had to do to win after New Hampshire, displaying a nimbleness--and a stomach for political hardball--that the country didn't know he had. In September, after falling behind Gore in the polls, Bush had to change gears again. Aides say Bush was stunned and angered by public and media reaction to his attempt to ignore the tiny and relatively unknown Commission on Presidential Debates and instead to hold talk show-style debates. The gambit backfired, creating the impression that Bush, and not Gore, was trying to duck the debates...
...little national triage, fix the broke ones, and we'll continue to have the same mottled, strange and wonderful nation of polling booths we have now. We'll have pulled up our tail end, but we'll still have lots of character where things aren't going wrong, and lots of money not spent...