[Speed Gibson,
Friday December 23, 2005 at 12:13am]
Looking back over 2005
TV and radio programs are already beginning to review the top news stories of 2005. This seems a week early to me, a ritual normally reserved for the week between Christmas and New Years Day.
Worldwide, the Tsunami would seem to be the big story. Nationally, perhaps Hurricane Katrina. Locally, the partial shutdown and the tax vs fee argument. But I think there could be another ranking, the stories that the press simply got wrong, like the Mary Mapes fiasco and what really happened at the Superdome. I think some of the coverage of the shutdown was also flawed in giving out too many benefits of the doubt.
Worldwide, the Tsunami would seem to be the big story. Nationally, perhaps Hurricane Katrina. Locally, the partial shutdown and the tax vs fee argument. But I think there could be another ranking, the stories that the press simply got wrong, like the Mary Mapes fiasco and what really happened at the Superdome. I think some of the coverage of the shutdown was also flawed in giving out too many benefits of the doubt.