This piece is excellent, albeit lengthy, and a reader must stay with it to find it’s main message. In the end, however, it's worth the read. Stated differently, the title of this piece could be "What Price Internet," because it shows how the demise of investigative journalism, largely at the hands of the internet (this isn't news), has opened fertile ground for folks driven by political (or whatever) ideology to comb the databases for anything, taken in our out of context, that will further their cause. Reporting done by these folks, who don't know the first thing about journalism, becomes all about winning for their side and not at all about educating or informing the populace; in short, narcissism and demagoguery running ... More »

This story is an example of what has happened to journalism. The choice to use video from people, who are not reports and not fair without question, causes problems.

This is a very interesting account of how two specific events in her life emerged simultaneously, and negatively, in the coverage of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supremen Court, inspired by the reporter's simple curiosity about how that could have happened. While, as other reviewers point out, the author does discuss the implications for journalism (which would have been more complete if he also had interviewed people who made the call at a couple of the TV networks), the description of how a single partisan, as a hobby, found information that played such a prominent role in the news, and how surprised he himself was at what happened, is informative and thought-provoking in itself, even if it had not had the ... More »

I give this a high quality rating. It exposes today's journalism for what it is.