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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 12/11/2007 1:37:35 PM
Title: Daly's personal attack should have been ignored
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From LEONARD DOWNIE JR., executive editor, Washington Post: Chris Daly's blog posting about Perry Bacon' s recent front page story in The Washington Post on how the Obama campaign has responded to a campaign of rumors falsely portraying the candidate as a Muslim is an outrageous personal attack on a fine young journalist, and I'm disappointed that it has been given circulation on Romenesko. Daly begins by distorting Perry's story beyond recognition. He then recklessly attacks Perry himself with a vicious phony anology, followed by an irresponsible denigration of Perry's substantial credentials as a political reporter, apparently based on Perry's age and, in particularly odious innuendo, something Daly inartfully refers to as "fast-tracking with a vengeance." The Washington Post has now and has had in the past many outstanding journalists like Perry who successfully take on great responsibility here at a similar age. Daly, however, during his time as a contract stringer for this newspaper, failed to earn a similar role for himself. And now, he says, he depends on Google for his shoddy reporting. Daly owes Perry Bacon an apology and Romenesko needs to be more discriminating. [Permalink]

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