Truthout Steps Down on Rove but whine's that their innacurate reporting "wasn't their fault"
And so the Rove watch endeth in great dismay for those of us who wished to see the perp walk. We were out of town but allegedly there was a fax, a phone call or an email to Rove's Lawyer, Robert Luskin saying that Rove would not be indicted.
Okay so that's a shame and that's politics. So we move on.
But the other little matter ... the pesky problem of Truthout.org reporting AS FACT that Rove was indicted and then defending that report despite the lack of an actual indictment being handed down. Now -well, yesterday actually - Truthout grudgingly stood down on the issue but continues to back their reporter, Jason Leopold.
That's just crap. It makes the left look bad and it furthers the idea that the liberal blogosphere is more interested in fantasty than it is in reality. Truthout needs to realize that the basic rules of journalism don't change just because the medium is different.
This here Queenie's Daughter - this is a blog. It is one royal opinion. This blog is not meant to be taken as journalism ... it is a speakers corner for Queenie's Daughter. And that's fine. That's what most blogs are.
But when you try to make a blog a NEW SOURCE you have to play by different rules. You have to have accountability and need to employ people with a certain degree of ethical behavior.
For the very last time, then, Queenie's Daughter will call for the firing of Jason Leopold.
The problem is not that he got a big story WRONG.
The issue is that he got a major story wrong while promoting his book (about what a con and a liar he used to be!!!)
And before whomever tells us we should "die" because we are "throwing the team under the bus" let us just clarify: Jason Leopold tanked up and drove the bus - all we are doing is writing the incident report.
Don't you hate those cheerleaders from both the right and left who are so filled with rhetoric they are blind to common sense and reality?
It's the hook and line liberals are going to sink the democratic party.
Okay so that's a shame and that's politics. So we move on.
But the other little matter ... the pesky problem of Truthout.org reporting AS FACT that Rove was indicted and then defending that report despite the lack of an actual indictment being handed down. Now -well, yesterday actually - Truthout grudgingly stood down on the issue but continues to back their reporter, Jason Leopold.
That's just crap. It makes the left look bad and it furthers the idea that the liberal blogosphere is more interested in fantasty than it is in reality. Truthout needs to realize that the basic rules of journalism don't change just because the medium is different.
This here Queenie's Daughter - this is a blog. It is one royal opinion. This blog is not meant to be taken as journalism ... it is a speakers corner for Queenie's Daughter. And that's fine. That's what most blogs are.
But when you try to make a blog a NEW SOURCE you have to play by different rules. You have to have accountability and need to employ people with a certain degree of ethical behavior.
For the very last time, then, Queenie's Daughter will call for the firing of Jason Leopold.
The problem is not that he got a big story WRONG.
The issue is that he got a major story wrong while promoting his book (about what a con and a liar he used to be!!!)
And before whomever tells us we should "die" because we are "throwing the team under the bus" let us just clarify: Jason Leopold tanked up and drove the bus - all we are doing is writing the incident report.
Don't you hate those cheerleaders from both the right and left who are so filled with rhetoric they are blind to common sense and reality?
It's the hook and line liberals are going to sink the democratic party.
posted by Queenies Daughter at 12:48 PM
1 Comments:
I am a conservative, and agree with you.
I personally believe that Truthout, unless they entirely change their tune on 6/19, have just forfeited their reputations entirely on this story..
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