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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter
I don't care how old the quote is but consistency should be maintained in how a corporation deals with its associates.
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Sorry, but that's just plain silly. Of course, consistency is to be desired, but are you suggesting that because something was allowed/overlooked/whatever 15 years ago then anything like it should be forever overlooked just for the sake of consistency? Seriously? Even under different "management"?
Real, meaningful consistency is saying "Regardless of what may or may not have been the policy in the past, everyone should understand that this is the policy
now" and then applying it consistently across the board -- say to Juan Williams and to anyone who might be thinking of attending Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's rallies.
I'd be paying much more attention to the "outrage" expressed by some on the conservative side if I thought they were at all concerned about the ethics, journalistic or otherwise, of the Juan Williams situation instead of by the political target that they see and the political benefit they think can be had. As it is, it's just another case of "Oh no, there go the liberals and their biases again." I have no more patience or respect for that than I do for "Oh no, there go the conservatives and their biases again."
BTW, as long as we're on consistency, interesting how so many defending Juan Williams -- who I happen to like, btw -- are appropriately saying that his remarks should be looked at in the broader context of all he said on O'Reilly, yet for Nina Totenberg we get just a 15-second clip with no context at all.
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