Mel Gibson tapes – Media standards sink lower yet

Mel Gibson's alleged audio presentation is definitely the point of view into account the shock of violence, no matter who was speaking on the tapes. But I think they also provide a snapshot of concern of how low standards have sunk in terms of verifying information before they are published by the mainstream media.

Let me just take a bite of a small of the Big Apple and corrupt - the bite that indicates the presence of a new standard for publication of the first without checking the source of this information or the truth, and to wait to see if anyone in the health challenges.

It was all kinds of mainstream media using this criterion sorry to justify publishing and disseminating raw violence and debased tapes alleged to contain threats against Gibson, his former girlfriend. But one that I found most disturbing and came in NPR Monday, an outlet, which seems to otherwise prides itself on the highest journalistic standards. At least, in talks this kind of talk a lot.

Here, "All things considered," co-host Michele Norris introduced the segment that included a revised version of the tapes, which she described as "disturbing turn in the life of Mel Gibson."

"A word of warning," she says. "What you're about to hear is ridiculous and it may not be suitable for audiences of young people, we are talking about audio broadcast through the Web site, Radaronline. That the sound of the conversation apparently between Gibson and his ex-girlfriend, and ... the tape, and a man alleged that the votes separated Gibson ... cursing wildly, in some cases, panting to catch his breath as he verbally abuses her ... "

After Norris plays a "frivolous" the tape, she gathered in the Horn of John, a writer, film from Los Angeles Times, on the audience to discuss what I just heard.

"... What do we know about how and when they were allegedly recording these tapes?" Ask the century.

"They were apparently recorded by alledgedly girlfreind his secret past and, I think, without his knowledge or consent - a simple legal issue in the bigger picture," says Horn.

"... It claims that it did not drop them," Norris says: "So we do not know anything about those who did not provide them?"

"No, we do not know, the radar would not say who released them," Horn explains, "but no one has yet disputed the authenticity of it, but it is not clear where it came from."

What a sorry performance by the NPR. Tapes are "ridiculous" and may distrub young children. NPR has no idea where they came from, why they were made public, even if Gibson's tapes. But in any event, played in the drivetime afternoon to an audience of millions.

Thus, interviews NPR century, and tells the audience that the national registration exercise illegally someone is a "minor" matter of law. Norris and the failure to question this statement.

Century correctly recognize that all or any other person who really knows is that the location of newspaper, the Voice claims is Mel Gibson, but he points out that "no one has yet disputed the authenticity of them."

This is the new standard in the mainstream media, I think: first publication, and the seizure of page views, and then hold your breath, hoping no one "calls into question the validity" of a document that we have not achieved in any way , shape or form to get started.

Atrributed words of Gibson and unfortunate, but many in the media were not acted very well both in an attempt to grab a piece of work on the Internet related to this sordid matter.