Politcal bloggers scoop the mainstream media on Plamegate
Politcal bloggers scoop the mainstream media on Plamegate
By TIM DICKINSON
Clearly, it was the wrong moment to declare war on the blogosphere. Barely a week before the New York Times went public with its baffling account of ex-star reporter Judith Miller’s unholy entanglement with vice-presidential aide “Scooter” Libby, the paper’s executive editor, Bill Keller, proclaimed that Weblogs do nothing more than “recycle and chew on the news.” Pride, as ever, goeth before the fall.