How TalkingPointsMemo Beat the Big Boys on the U.S. Attorney Story

It's almost too perfect. A mainstream reporter mocks a story a blogger has been working to break, asserting that "it all makes perfect conspiratorial sense!", and that the blogger is "seeing broad partisan conspiracies where none likely exist," only to backtrack a few weeks later when the story explodes across the front pages of the major dailies. Full Story »

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Kimberly Ann Macher
4.7
by Kimberly Ann Macher - Oct. 1, 2008

This is just the kind of journalism we need. It gives even more creedence to the fact that one of the unofficial journalist bloggers on Talking Points Memo has been picked up by Brain Ross to do investigative journalism on Mainstream T.V. whereby legitimizing Justin Rood's integrity. At least he got his foot in the door, some people can't even get a big toe in the door, because nobody will give 'em the chance. Crowd sourcing is on the rise. This is not rocket science and I think this just agitates the heck outta some people's washing machines. Unofficially of course.

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