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[fortdixlover]

A fascinating story of the MSM (Fogosphere) in serious decline. Well worth reading and exploring the contained links.

-- FDL

http://www.illusionfree.com/weblog/index.php/no_illusions/niperm/20040828_pl/

A little vignette of major media in decline—the Minneapolis Star-Tribune

This is a story about an editorial battle in a regional newspaper. It’s also about a larger set of issues that gets to the heart of who controls information.

An interesting press battle is being waged on the pages of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. For details, see Hugh Hewitt’s analysis of the whole thing. Hugh’s piece fills in the details:

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. ...

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.

---> go to http://www.illusionfree.com/weblog/index.php/no_illusions/niperm/20040828_pl/ to read

[tvaughan]

A fine piece. It should be read promptly. It will give you even more an idea what we're up against.
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