[Cincinatus' Wife]

Los Angeles Times No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players.

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I'd Rather Be Blogging CBS stonewalls as "guys in pajamas" uncover a fraud.

***……………. If it turns out that the Killian memos are indeed forgeries, the Internet will have played an invaluable role in exposing the fraud much faster than the 18 months Mr. Camacho had to twist in the wind. Free Republic, a Web bulletin board, raised early warning signals about the memos within hours of last Wednesday's "60 Minutes" broadcast. Powerlineblog.com, a site run by three lawyers, reposted those comments, which were amplified by indcjournal.com. Then design expert Charles Johnson, who blogs at littlegreenfootballs.com, retyped one of the memos using Microsoft Word and showed them to be a perfect typographic match.

A defensive Dan Rather went on the air Friday to complain of what he called a "counterattack" from "partisan political operatives." In reality, traditional journalism now has a new set of watchdogs in the "blogosphere." In the words of blogger Mickey Kaus, they can trade information and publicize it "fast enough to have real-world consequences." Sure, blogs can be transmission belts for errors, vicious gossip and last-minute disinformation efforts. But they can also correct themselves almost instantaneously--in sharp contrast with CBS's stonewalling. *** FR post

[The Raven]

[Diogenesis]

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Behind the Curtain at CBS = Counterfeit Broadcasting System

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(18 USC 494) Falsely Making, Alerting or Forging a Public Record.

(18 USC 494) Uttering or Publishing a False Public Record.

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[Savage Beast]

"When history books are written, bloggers' real contribution to the 2004 election may well turn out to be in providing leagues of amateur sleuths to fact-check political controversy."

Only one of many contributions. You see--bloggers will write history. They're writing it now.

Clio loves the internet.

"they have certainly helped drive questions about the veracity of CBS's '60 Minutes II' report"

They have helped drive questions about the veracity of CBS! (Of course CBS made the job easy.)

"From this can come startling insight and well-reasoned analysis, or on-the-spot news posted faster than most news outlets can manage"

John's been reading the posts on Free Republic.

Matt Drudge was right!

So much for the hollow claim of the NYTimes to be "the newspaper of record". What a laugh! Clio hates that propaganda rag!

The internet is the newspaper of record.

[GailA]

What is Sen. Kerry HIDING in his 3.5 years of military records of which he's RELEASED SIX PAGES of? In 3.5 years of Naval Reserve service the paper trail is MORE than SIX MEASLY PAGES!

[Casloy]

It's too early to say whether the bloggers calling "hoax" have won the day.

Nope, it is an established fact.

[Robert A Cook PE]

So, when the completed version of all 80+ factual errors comes out, this guy DEFINITELY needs to be on the distribution list.

"John Borland writes for CNET News.com

[DaveMSmith]

Hoax? Okay if they want to play word games.. how about Harkin's Hoax?