Online buzz’ challenges journalism

[wabeewoman]

Seems like finally some discussion of the media's role--shall we call it the Jon Stewart effect???

William Raspberry “How do you handle controversial, explosive charges made in the heat of a political campaign by people with painfully obvious axes to grind?”

It was the charges made in an ad by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that prompted Rieder’s examination, but it could have been – and assuredly will be – any number of spurious (or at any rate unproven) allegations

Indeed, for me the most important complaint about mainstream coverage of the Swift boat affair was not that it was ignored, but that mainstream journalists waited too long to get beyond the they-said-he-said “objective” reporting and try to figure out who was closer to the truth.

[ThatPoetGuy]

1. Link please? EOM