Ed Morrissey of Captains Quarters, here writing at The Weekly Standard, traces the role of blogs in the Eason Jordan matter. Well said, Ed.
Morrissey's summary really brings home the point that this whole affair is less about what bloggers did, and more about what major media didn't do. Jordan's statements were not an incidental rhetorical faux pas that was blown into something greater than that by partisan bloggers. They were just the latest in a longer pattern of inflammatory and unsubstantiated claims and distortions, which more than justify his termination from CNN. He knew that. CNN knew that, and that's what happened. That leaves who as clueless? No wonder they're bitchy.
If this had been a partisan blogger witch hunt, as it is being portrayed by the scoopees in the major media, we would have already seen the video. In fact,you can boil down all the rightwing knuckledragging, pajamahadeen wrath of the last two weeks into three simple words: Show the video. Partisan stuff.
Posted by dan at February 17, 2005 07:31 PM