The MSM's Really Bad Year

The L.A. Times on the media and their...let's say less than stellar showing this year:

• Mark Swed, music critic for the Los Angeles Times, described Richard Strauss' epic opera "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" as "an incomparably glorious and goofy pro-life paean" in a February review. Unfortunately, "pro-life" in his review was changed to "anti-abortion" in the published version, even though abortion is not an issue in the opera, which "extols procreation," as The Times acknowledged in a correction the next day. Even more unfortunately, a second correction was required the following day to point out that the first correction had "incorrectly implied" that it was the reviewer who had characterized the work as "anti-abortion."

Of course, this being the L.A. Times They couldn't resist taking a shot at Reagan and his AIDS policies. The MRC also released their "Notable Quotables" although their site seems to be down at the moment.