Right-wing bloggers are abuzz in self-righteous indignation over this NYT article by Sarah Boxer on the IraqtheModel site, in part because she begins her article thus:

When I telephoned a man named Ali Fadhil in Baghdad last week, I wondered who might answer. A C.I.A. operative? An American posing as an Iraqi? Someone paid by […]

Less and less impressed with CJR and its Campaign Desk. Campaign Desk’s Brian Montopoli accuses the WSJ of trying to “put lipstick on a pig” with its story disclosing the Dean campaign put two bloggers on its payroll to secure their allegiance. That MyDD’s Jerome Armstrong and Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas Zuniga were hired isn’t […]

Adam Penenberg takes up a subject close to my heart, reporter blogs in the latest Wired:

For all the press that bloggers have received for revolutionizing journalism by bringing Gutenberg’s printing press to the digital masses, when push comes to shove, journalists who operate personal weblogs face an inherent conflict of interest. In the […]

Usually I try to stay out of TV shots, honestly. But sometimes it’s the only way to hear what someone is saying, such as this woman in Bobby Cuza’s NY1 story of two dozen kids who suffered thankfully minor injuries in an escalator mishap.

I’ve been thinking about this Armstrong Williams thing all day. My first reaction: I wish someone was willing to pay me $242,000 to promote something I believed in! But jeez, the more I think about it… I mean, I’d like to think I’d have the integrity to turn down a quarter-mil in those circumstances. Y’know, […]