Little Green Football's "Reutersgate" and "Rathergate"

[rodeodance]

Blogger Takes Aim At News Media and Makes a Direct Hit

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; C01


.......The exposure of the doctored airstrike photo was a coup for Johnson and his four-year-old political blog, Little Green Footballs. Make that a second coup, of sorts.

In September 2004, not long after "60 Minutes II" seemed to offer damning revelations about President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, Johnson was at the forefront of bloggers who raised questions about the CBS report. (Johnson used the Microsoft Word program to retype the memos used in the report and found that his computer could reproduce the same typefaces and line breaks that Dan Rather had said were produced by a manual typewriter in the mid-1970s.) The incident became a historic debacle for the network and contributed to Rather's retirement from the "CBS Evening News" anchor chair.

Little Green Football's "Reutersgate" and "Rathergate" scalps share a key characteristic: They stem from Johnson's skepticism of, if not outright hostility toward, the mainstream news media (or as some Little Green Football visitors like to refer to them when they post comments, "the lamestream media").......

In Johnson's view, the news media haven't adequately sounded the alarm about threats to Western societies posed by radical Islamic groups -- something he says he seeks to redress through his politically conservative blog

[madrchsod]

1. lgf is one of the vilest forums on the net

it is far worse than the freerepublic or even lucy`s site. it`s one step above the aryan nation or stormfront

[ShortnFiery]

3. Worse than lucy`s site?

OMG, I thought nothing could be more vile than that little clutch of venom spewing monsters! :puke:

Nope, I'll take your word for it an not visit this wannabe a Drudge Site (Rove's new BOY campaigning?).

[zbdent]

2. Is it considered an honor to be lambasted by lgf?

I only have one hit ...

[Briar]

4. Why is this being talked up as a triumph for this little

weevil? He detected what? A tiny bit of photoshopping? And suddenly 900 plus Lebanese haven't been killed in ruthless and vicious Israeli attacks on a sovereign, democratic country? The MSM should stop cowering and sound the alarm against fanatical bigots like him.

[Malingerer]

5. demand integrity in journalism

I think we should all demand ACCURATE reporting. Doctoring of photographs is just as bad as being lied to about WMD in Iraq. I hate being lied to.

[rodeodance]

6. but interesting to see who is taking credit