Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan led the online charge to destroy the smear job on Sonia Sotomayor that Jeff Rosen put together through anonymous lies. Greenwald also did an excellent job of tracing the flow of Rosen’s lies through additional TNR posts and on into the M$M, where it was reported as legitimate concerns about Sotomayor.

David Simon, creator of The Wire holding forth on the current state of Journalism on Democracy Now

Walter Pincus does the same in this CJR piece.

don’t agree completely with either of them but both were worth reading.

apparently Mr Simon is unfamiliar with Emptywheel’s work . . .

The internet is a marvelous tool, and clearly it is the information delivery system of our future. But thus far, it does not deliver much first-generation reporting. Instead, it leeches that reporting from mainstream news publications, whereupon aggregating websites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth.

or TPM, eriposte, kagro, dengre . . .

uh Mr Simon, see Hamsher, Jane: cramdowns

and he’s unfamiliar with Phoenix Woman’s work on MN Senate – or he wouldn’t have said what he did about the lack of good beat reporting :D

There are many stories that failed to make it to Trad Med.
Mormons it seems like to go out and baptize the dead and have recently baptized Obama’s grandmother without anyones permission. The dead are free to object if they so choose.
http://www.americablog.com/200…..eject.html

How about the story of Merck publishing a fake peer-reviewed journal to promote its products.
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009…..w-journal/

oh mike !

the mormons themselves are debating this. (ok, so I found myself caught up in comments in some LDS threads). apparently the Church issued some, um, clarication on this a few years back when descendants of Holocaust survivors rightfully called them out for this practice. per the Church, whoever did this should be “de-fellowhshiped” ( I kid you not) and possibly even excommunicated.

oh and p.s. you godless hippies – all this does, is give the soul “the option” of saying yeah or nay to Mr Jeebus when they get to heaven

I am always pleased to see credit go to one of my favorite blogs. Rachel even showed an FDL page a couple of weeks ago, and last night KO credited Greg Sargent’s Plum Line. That might not be customary in the MSM, but Rachel and KO get it!!

Nina Totenberg on NPR’s All Things Considered sorta (IMO) softened her language when dealing with the Rosen smear of Sotomayor, but at least she did include the info that it had been “countered” by her supporters.

Who Will Succeed Justice Souter?

I wish she had said, “completely discredited” but at least she included the fact that there are opposing views.

EDIT: And I think she actually highlighted that Sotomayor was a graduate of prestigious universities and law schools.

although it didn’t ‘break’ online, I would like to know more about this week’s SCOTUS decision on identity theft and how it impacts those folks who were rounded up in Iowa about a year ago. recall that was the means by which ICE busted in.

but at least she did include the info that it had been “countered” by her supporters.

I suppose that’s better than nothing. It would have been great if she had said that Rosen’s piece had been thoroughly destroyed by those who favor honesty and integrity in the public discussion about the SCOTUS selection process. Greenwald made it clear that he wasn’t doing this necessary to support Sotomayor as much to discredit the process by which anonymous people could trash her reputation.

The substance that came out in the discussion threads on Glenn’s blog showed that Princeton was far more selective for female students than male students when Sotomayor went there and that she got the highest possible award at graduation. [See the comments from doctorscience, who overlapped Sotomayor’s time there.] She clearly was “the best of the best” in her undergraduate work and far from the “affirmative action beneficiary” Rosen’s people tried to present.

OT: Two great lines from NPR yesterday afternoon:
– “The worst is over: only 500,000 people lost their jobs last month.”
– “Their has been an upsurge in consumer confidence, but it might be all in their heads.”

Where to they get these fools?

Yes, better than nothing, but far from complete. I was only about half listening until I caught the words, “Jeffrey Rosen” and then I listened very closely. Totenberg is one of the better ones on NPR these days, just my opinion, of course, but seems pretty even-handed when reporting on SCOTUS matters.

ProPublica (I think they are non-traditional?) did an awesome report on the role of psychologists in crafting torture policy … along with 216 pages of leaked emails from APA psychologists (PENS group) who crafted the association’s official position on assisting enhanced interrogations.

Worth a look if you missed it.

Let me add to the list provided.

PW, I’m glad to see you using the reference “Traditional Media.” This needs to grow as a meme, because day after day we see how the Trad Media’s attempts at being “bipartisan” skew issues because they seldom if ever have the nerve or integrity to challenge some of the patently false accusations and weakly linked associations that the Republicans are throwing around desperately these days.

Can’t wait for Robert Gibbs to use the reference someday.

There’s a Pew poll up at DKos that shows that the Internet was the most useful source of information on H1N1 (swine) flu issues, and newspapers and network TV are way down the list. They feel threatened, it’s obvious, and rightfully so if their ‘balanced’ coverage is skewed towards conservatives and their ongoing falsehoods.

Also, let’s all keep asking the question: If having a two party system is desirable, why does the other party have to be the Republican Party? If this gets elevated as an ongoing talking point, the extreme right like Cheney and Limbaugh and who they appeal to will begin to fade.

And if there is any notion in our time that needs to be faded, it’s right wing fear and posturing.