“Read TNR’s accounting. It is as I predicted: honorable and, except for one small inaccuracy, it checks out. All the aspects aggressively challenged by the usual propaganda organs have been verified and corroborated. The military is now conducting its own investigation. Given the record of such formal investigations, I’m not as confident in the Pentagon as I am in TNR. Can we now expect apologies from the people who smeared and maligned the magazine and its soldier-reporter? I doubt it. The attackers are not the kind to acknowledge their own errors.”

Where is Sully now? on vacation of course.

This is just too good for words

Instead of fighting (and losing) with the blogs, the MSM should utilize the blogsphere as an adjunct to their reporting. They could continue to report with their usual limited fact checking then invite the blogs to comment and fact check on their behalf (for free no less). If the facts pan out then the MSM can continue with a follow-up story. If the facts cannot be confirmed the MSM can issue a retraction and thank the fact checkers for their diligence. In turn, the MSM would gain credibility by using the blog experts as their own

Catch the financials from the Times and other newspapers and read how their classified ad revenues are cascading. There is no money for green eye shade fact checkers.

Thanks to Craigslist and others for their falling revs.

Because blogs allow feedback (the comments section), the principal functions in the blogosphere. Blogs that have a large and varied readership, not only get errors fixed quickly, but because some of the readers have subject matter expertise in the topic, the story can get additional research and leads.

Maybe TNR can reinvent itself as Red Star or some such heroic bastion of progressive truth.

It’s hard to find a liberal publication that displays much sense or fairness, and TNR was one of the rare ones that attempted some balance and honesty on partisan issues. But worse even than publishing Beauchamp, they defended the story when they had reason to believe it was not true and, as Ace detailed, they pulled a little bait and switch in the defense. That is unforgivable.

The spectacle of Barry Bonds “breaking” the all time home run record when evidence exist that he has cheated is disturbing to me.

There is got to be a way to make it right.