[muawiyah]

The Washington Post can now openly discuss the rumors their operatives have disseminated. So can the Baltimore Sun.

Is this supposed to be a new technique?

Back in the old days they used to get stuff like O'Malley's infidelities published in a suburban weekly. That's much harder these days now that Conrad Black owns most of them (really!).

[briant]

Exactly, here you get argument and requests for proofs, whereas in too many newsrooms you have herd thinking.