Unbelievable. Nothing about substance on WaPo on PBS. Nothing.

[Faygo Kid]

Deborah Howell's appalling, misleading, dishonest characterization of the underlying issue is ignored, on Lehrer. The question debated, are Bloggers rude? Not, is Deborah Howell completely without credibility after kissing up to the corrupt GOP? GAAAAAHHHHHH! Another Judy Miller!

[lisa58]

1. I'm watching too...

... and you're right - the outrage was about what she wrote. If she had done her job she would not have been ridiculed.

[gumby]

2. Shorter Subject

Nothing of substance from Lehrer. (Again, as usual)

[Catrina]

3. Thanks, I was wondering if they told the public why bloggers were

angry ~ but I guess not. Just imagine, the Post could have been the first news organization NOT to have used the RNC talking points. Instead they let Howell just plop them in their paper, more three weeks after they had been debunked.

They can chit-chat all they want about the technology etc, or a rude 'blogger', but that was never the issues at all. Who do they think 'bloggers are anyway? They are their readers, they are the public. The people they thought didn't exist outside their little elitest offices and cocktail parties.

Now, OMG, the 'great unwashed masses' out there beyond that screen, the camera they talk to and preen in front of, or the ones who pick up the paper, that they never see, are answering back, and what they SHOULD have learned, instead of obsessing on the few people who got a little too riled up (as if Howell never used 'obscenities' ha! ha!) is that the 'people', 'we the people' have never, not ever, been as manipulable as they obviously thought.

The lesson of the WAPO/Powell 'incident' ought to be 'don't lie to the American people'. Stop it!! We're on to you and we'll call you on it because we do the research, we DON'T think you're god, or better, or more informed, or anything else. We just have OUR jobs, and yours are to tell the truth. Is that so hard?

What they LOST was trust ~ when Howell decided to repeat Republican lies. What they GAINED, thanks to the bloggers, was the distinction of being the first media outlet to finally admit that the RNC talking point that the Abramoff scandal was bi-partisan, was a lie.

They should thank us for helping them to get there. I have noticed that no other major outlet has dared to repeat that lie since ~ we are the majority, we just needed to be heard, and we were, and we will be.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. that's why it is called the "snooze hour"

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Notice they never invite Skinner

or anyone from DU on these shows. Especially since he was the one that got the screen captures of the actual posts.