Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller expands the the JournoList scandal with a new article by Jonathan Strong, showing how the formerly-secret internet listserv was used to coordinate a strategy to mute criticism of Rev. Jeramiah Wright during Obama’s campaign.
The current mainstream media can still function with a tarnished reputation. But they leave a vacuum that legitimate, non-partisan news sources need to fill.
UPDATE: Ann Althouse’s blog will probably have a good comment thread on this. What we are witnessing is the collapse of journalism as a profession. This is huge.
UPDATE: The Christian Science Monitor has a fairly balanced take on this scandal.
UPDATE: Rod Dreher:
If this were just a conservative vs. liberal thing, I wouldn’t blog on it here, because politics isn’t really my thing anymore. This, to me as a journalist, is a hugely important matter of morality and professional ethics, and a blow to the authority of journalism at a time when it is already reeling.
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