Also on the 21st: Wired‘s Ryan Singel, on the invaluable privacy/security blog Threat Level, totally dismembers Klein’s “argument.”
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Tuesday, November 27: Jane Hamsher of the widely-read blog Firedoglake tracks down Klein’s editor, Priscilla Painton, who dismisses Hamsher and hangs up the phone.
Wednesday, November 28: The Chicago Tribune–one week after the original article ran and after any reasonable observer will conclude that it was terrible, terrible journalism, something that anyone who even pays a moderate amount of attention to some of the most prominent political bloggers on the Internet would have noticed–publishes a straight excerpt from the article, sans correction. (UPDATE: Huzzah! The Trib corrects, and does a much, much better job of it than Time. WTG journalism!)
First, they should read them conceptually. Bloggers have been great innovators in–forgive me for using this word–remixing existing news so that it’s much more comprehensible for the average reader. Using context, history, multiple sources (newspapers like to pretend their competitors don’t exist, a bizarre kabuki ritual I’ll never understand), bloggers are simply incredibly efficient at enriching the news with available information. Ignore the content for a while and just read blogs structurally, and you’ll find there’s a lot to learn.
