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Originally Posted by Elphaba
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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_ro...ing/index.html
Karl Rove, Jason Leopold and the hunt for the truth
Salon tells everything it knows about Jason Leopold and faults the WSJ's:
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......[The Journal's] Anne Marie Squeo checks in today on Leopold's report that Rove has already been indicted in the Valerie Plame case, and she uses her story as an occasion for a little blog-bashing. Squeo says that bloggers have "blurred the lines with traditional media and changed both the dynamics of the reporting process and how political rumors swirl," and she quotes Jay Rosen for the proposition that the blogosphere has a "let's see if this holds up" philosophy when it comes to news.
<b>Just two problems here: Leopold isn't reporting on Plamegate as a blogger, and the blogosphere -- or at least the part of it we respect -- hasn't taken anything like a "let's see if this holds up" approach to his latest report.</b> While some liberal bloggers jumped immediately on Leopold's Rove "scoop" Saturday, many others looked at the story through more cautious eyes.....
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....a reminder to everyone that a distinction must be made between exclusive reporting that is displayed on truthout.org web pages, such as the "controversial" Leopold reporting on Rove's indictment....and....news and other articles that originally appeared on other sites..... that are simply displayed on truthout.org pages under the fairness doctrine.
In other words, and NY Times, LA Times, or Washington post article or news report is not tranformed into something less credible, simply because it is archived on truthout.org. Sometimes the truthout.org archived reproduction of an article is the only place that a third party article can be referenced for the majority of us to examine.
Consider the source of any original reporting before you decide on it's reliability. For example....if Walter Pincus of the Washington Post reports on something that is happening, IMO....you can take it to the bank....it will be reliable reporting. If Sue Schmidt from the Washington Post writes a news report.....I consider that she did not earn the nickname, "steno Sue" because of a track record for reporting in "her own words", or for always being reliable.
The home page of mediamatters.org founded by a prominent partisan who defected to the "other side" is devoted to reporting "defects" in the statements and reporting of everyone else. I refer to the their findings often.