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What would have been a quiet holiday weekend for the blogosphere, has instead been energized by a single post, on a brand new site. It's about courage, a newspaper reporter not afraid to make waves in a stuffy, elitist atmosphere. And it proves that nothing has changed in America's newsrooms since last year's Rathergate. How could Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray be virtually alone in demanding Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley back up her absurd statement, that American troops were intentionally targeting journalists in Iraq?

Jeff Gannon (or if you prefer, James Guckert) has been elevated by an unnamed Democratic strategist to cult like status. According to an article posted on Raw Story, we are all now living in something the fringe left calls the "post-Jeff Gannon era." That's "where the left can finally show we know how to fight back and hold the media accountable.” According to this unnamed strategist. “The right wing spent 30 years telling America about the liberal media, it’s time Democrats found the courage to set the record straight.” It seems that liberals are all up in arms becuase Boston...