After AP reporter Nedra Pickler wrote a news story highlighting how some fringe Republican operatives were raising questions about Sen. Barack Obama's patriotism, angry readers dispatched nearly 15,000 electronic letters protesting the piece. Full Story »
Posted by Rory O'Connor
This opinion piece does have one genuine news item. It describes the spam tactics that are being used on the far left to inundate news media on a topic. The approach is not new (there are many exammples of identical letters showing up in multiple newspapers supposedly from different people), but the technology is improved. Otherwise the piece is lacking in research and in balance.
