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I think there is another phase about to unfold.

Thanks for your leadership, spunk, and careful methods of going forth on activism topics.
The careful research, lively forum, self-correcting methods within the blog make FDL unimpeachable!

AMEN! There’s absolutely NO excuse that reporter Susan whatsis can hide behind. Yes, errors appear in stories. It’s inevitable. But all news outlets have Corrections sections. And once challenges start being filed, any editor worth his/her salt should see to it the reporter involved finds out what the truth is, and publishes a retraction ASAP.

Whenever the mistakes involve an election, all the above should be written in CAPS!

Saying the reporter isn’t familiar with a topic she covers will NOT stand. Whoever published the misinformation should be hammered till they publish correct information.

I was delighted to see Ned’s site is going after this aggressively. I hope CT-resident FDLers will also complain – that would be much stronger than out-of-staters getting involved at this point, turf wars being what they are…

Why is that? You’d think they would have learned somethig after being completely bamboozled on the run-up to the Iraq war, but so much time went by before the truth came out that it was like they felt no need to own up to their own lapses.

That’s why timing is so important. If too much time goes by without the media being called on their shoddy reporting, they really don’t care, and too many of the public have moved on. I will be shocked if anyone in the media ever backtracks on this phony hacking story, and if they do, it will be little more than a footnote on page 22.

Maybe the key is with the local people – not the national media reps. If you can get the locals to speak up, that may bring the bigger fish in.

On the Lieberman thing, it was the national media that set the story line – high-profile, long-term Democrat, chosen to run as VP only 6 years ago gets blindsided by “anti-war millionaire unknown.” They made the same mistake Joe did in his campaign: believing that he was entitled to some special level of credibility, so much so that they completely ignored the real story: that he was out-of-touch with his constituents, on the wrong side of too many issues, that he was so enamored of being the guy everybody in DC liked that he forgot how to fight for Democratic values and positions.

Somewhere along the line, the media forgot that it was not supposed to set the story line, but report the who, what, when, where and why – now, breaking through this wall that the media constructs is one tough task.

I think we need a cable channel called “BlogTV;” can you imagine what a difference it might make if FDL and Glenn Greenwald and Digby and Taylor Marsh and others were to come at people through their televisions? “Bloggles” the mind! *g*

From Howie Klein’s blog at HuffPo:

“I want to point out that we’re not talking about someone who volunteered to hand out flyers at a Lieberman rally in Stamford once. Dan Gerstein was a senior Democratic strategist who worked with Lieberman for 10 years and collaborated with him on the infamous stab in the back he administered to Bill Clinton at a time when only partisan Republicans were calling for Clinton’s impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky brouhaha.”

Lierberman and by extension Dan Gerstein need their faces rubbed in their own piddle. Dan Gerstein probably is a major factor in HoJo’s Rethuglican-Lite “Indie” run decision. Find out who he gets his checks from and his “senior Democratic strategist” meal ticket will disappear out from under him.

Nail him to the fence post so all the other DLC ‘consultants’ can view their impending fate.

It seems to me that when we can show the media that they’ve been had, been used, it helps make them more discriminating in the information they are willing to use without checking.

What we can’t do is nothing.

And the reporters who were graced with the conference call from Cheney to dump on Lamont?

Why don’t they feel used enough to write something tough?