Robert Whitcomb

Bloggers Untrustworthy, Threatening to MSM, Journalist Panel Concludes

By Matthew Vadum | Wed, 09/24/2008 - 00:29

Stop the presses!

After Rathergate, the New Republic's Scott Thomas Beauchamp scandal, the protracted coverup of the John Edwards affair story, the ongoing refusal to challenge Barack Obama's claim that terrorist William Ayers was just "some guy" in his neighborhood, and Matt Drudge's history-changing decision to break the Monica Lewinsky story after mainstream media outlets refused to report it, it's clear that bloggers, many of whom spend their time fact-checking stories disseminated by the mainstream media, represent a threat to the mainstream media.