Warmergate
As good as this story is, the bigger story being missed by the press is how MSM is abdicating its role and becoming complicit in the kinds of sins it used to relish exposing.
The thesis that the bloggers leach off the work of “journalists” is bogus. The research, the legwork is done by alternative media, talk radio, bloggers and the citizens on the internet. The press stonewalls and waits for press releases to copy but ultimately leaches from these alternative media research and stories.
Moreover, with downsizing of personnel and branch offices (Washington Post just announced several office closings) the reliance of traditional media on alternative media is necessarily going to become more pronounced.
Nah, they'll continue to get all their material from the DNC and White House press offices.
“As good as this story is, the bigger story being missed by the press is how MSM is abdicating its role and becoming complicit in the kinds of sins it used to relish exposing.”
That happened a long time ago. I don’t know exactly when, but I became aware of it in the early 1980s, and have seen examples from the Viet Nam era. Ann Coulter wrote that the trashing of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s was an example of this.
Point is, it’s not that they are now abdicating; it is that they have been despicable villains for decades.
As another poster here has coined it... Climediagate.