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 Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:03 am Post subject: Old Media vs. New In tomorrows Minn StarTrib |
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From Hugh Hewitt's Blog.....
| Quote: | There is a battle underway in the Twin Cities between a pampered, bullying lefty deputy editor at the Star Tribune by the name of Jim Boyd and the Powerline bloggers. For relative newcomers to the blogosphere, Powerline is among the most respected political blogs in the country, credentialed to the RNC and widely and frequently cited by journalists working both in and outside of cyberspace. This isn't surprising because the three proprieters of Powerline are extremely smart, highly credential and successful lawyers with the work habits and intellects that accompany success at the highest levels of the law. They are also fine and good men, widely and rightly considered to be pillars of their community. They are serious intellectuals, of a center-right variety.
On August 18, two of the Powerline three authored a piece on Kerrry's Cambodian charade, which ran in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and a series of events began to unfold, summarized here. Boyd was incensed by the article's relentless factual case against Kerry, but rather than answer the charges --which as every sentient journalist now understands cannot be answered because Kerry wove a tapestry of half-truths and lies about his excellent adventures in Cambodia-- Boyd lashed out in what to my eye was an actionable defamatory screed directed at the Powerline writers. Though they are public figures, the Powerline gents could sue the Star Tribune with a decent chance of proving the necesssary degree of malevolence on Boyd's part, but instead they have challendged Boyd to defend his hack job and rebut their column.
HughHewitt.com - Con't.
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