The great blog American Thinker offers us a nugget of fact-based truth: Journolist, the “unofficial Obama campaign,” proves that irresponsible, false charges of racism are accepted on the left as a political tactic.
Here’s what Ezra Klein wrote today: In another wrinkle they haven’t mentioned, Journolist included Gautham Nagesh, a Daily Caller reporter (he’s since moved to The Hill). He leaned conservative, and frequently disagreed with other members of the list. It also included almost 400-some other people. If I had thought there was some deep and dark [...]
Tucker Carlson’s online mag The Daily Caller has just put itself on the American journalistic map with its serialization of the JournoList scandal. This kind of news will put the popularity of the site on afterburners, just the way the Monical Lewinsky scandal made Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report a household name. It’s also catalyzing a long-needed [...]
If that’s possible. UPDATE: Headline changed. The Standards and Practices Dept. suggested that I tone down the blue rhetoric a bit, in the hope that this will become a more family-oriented blog. (Hah.)
I’m going to be on news.google.com today to see how the leftish do damage control. The emerging meme is that there is a “secret conservative listserv that’s just like JournoList.” It’s going to be Bill Clinton style message coordination again. Remember? Conservatives said that he committed a felony, and the leftish reflexively SCREAMED that “He was [...]
After seeing if I could drum up interest yesterday in buying the infamous JournoList archives for the benefit of my second favorite blogger, Andrew Breitbart takes up the challenge and offers $100,000 for them. Awesome, Andrew! I’m very happy about this development. Go get ‘em!
Dave Weigel joins MSNBC. LOL
Some things I discovered from my bloggish interactions yesterday: Ethics in journalism — at least in Washington D.C. – are a pipe dream. Journalists can get into secret clusterfucks with their sources (Journolist being the most obvious example) and nobody gives a rat’s ass. Dave Weigel was a good journalist who was hired by the Washington Post as their [...]
Good take on the Weigel Affair from The Economist; including a little preening in the last paragraph.
Dave Weigel posts an honest and painfully self-critical mea culpa on Breitbart’s Big Journalism site. I’m sure he will find other work in journalism eventually. UPDATE: One futher thought: As I’ve said in other places, I think Ezra Klein’s Journolist was set up as a mechanism to enable public policy advocates of a particular politcial [...]