The Bloggers Made Us Do It!!

I am now noticing a trend, (even Michelle Malkin is noticing it) that big name journalists, if you want to call them that, are now getting into the infantile stage of blaming bloggers for their mistakes in reporting the news (whenever if it could do damage to the Republicans but ends up eggs on their faces).

Here lies in this blog a collection of these instances of journalists who cannot accept responsibilities of their own mistakes in reporting the news but would rather use bloggers as their scapegoats. These are the weenie hacks who have nothing better than to adhere to their own political agendas in their attempt to out President Bush or any Republican political candidates. The school of journalism has never taught a finer bunch as them when all they can say is "The Bloggers Made Us Do it!"



On Sunday night, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller told Jeff Fager, executive producer of CBS's "60 Minutes," that the story they had been jointly pursuing on missing Iraqi ammunition was starting to leak on the Internet.

"You know what? We're going to have to run it Monday," Keller said.

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When "60 Minutes" reported on documents purporting to show Mr. Bush received preferential treatment in the Air National Guard, questions about the documents' authenticity originated and caught fire on the FreeRepublic and PowerLine blog Web sites; mainstream outlets followed. CBS News admitted two weeks later that it could not authenticate the documents. The NBC anchor Tom Brokaw recently likened the tone of the Internet coverage of the CBS National Guard report, presented by the anchor Dan Rather, to a "political jihad."

In an interview last week Mr. Brokaw said CBS News had clearly made mistakes. But, he said, "I think there were people just lying in the Internet bushes, waiting to strike, and I think that particular episode gave them a big opportunity."

Say it, Tom Brokaw, just say it.

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"There's a political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS," said the insensitive Brokaw. "We know a mistake was made, but it's been blown out of proportion. It's an attempt to demonize CBS news. It's a demagoguery unleashed on the Internet.” The fact that Tom Brokaw would call the needed watchdogs that hold Rather accountable jihadists only reinforces how out of touch old media is. Only a week ago, real jihadists beheaded two innocent Americans in Iraq. But Tom Brokaw not only proved his absolute out of touch elitism with this comment, but also showed his paranoia as he continued.

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More weenie journalists to follow?.....