Abstract

Full-Court Press

Jeff Jacoby, a pundit currently under suspension at the "Boston Globe" for passing off the nonsensical musings of an anonymous electronic mail about alleged heroes of the American Revolution as his own research. The right is up in arms over this example of so-called leftist McCarthyism on the part of the radical "Boston Globe" editors who suspended him. The cause was Jacoby's borrowing without attribution none dare call it plagiarism. Another poster boy for liberal media persecution is ABC News's John Stossel, a right-wing huckster the network inexplicably allows to play a journalist on TV. For years Stossel has, with impunity, consistently misrepresented academic research, offered false statistical claims and quoted his sources out of context to support one crackpot right-wing theory after another.