“…blogs will continue sprouting like crab grass throughout the electronic ether. Soon, the line separating quality journalism from utter hokum will be too blurry to discern.”

David Lazarus was right; he just failed to realize which side of the line his, and other MSM publications, would fall.

I think I am going to make up a new word for this: schadenfreudilicious!

“Pulitzer prize winning” is a big a death knell to a career as tenure is to a professor. It means “Don’t you know who I am?” and “How dare you question my veracity?”

It is sweet justice when these lazy, biased slobs get their comeuppance!

Suppose the terrorists did not have a NY Times to beat abu graib to death for weeks on end or expose national security secrets? Or a CIA and State Dept. not blatently Arabist?

What is the percentage of informed citzenry who actually still believe the drivel that courageous puke Dan Blather tried to foist on the public? I get sick of hearing how that disgusting propagandist Michael Moore is a great American for revealing the truth about corporations and the government.

So isn’t it possible that like Walter Durante going back to the 30s if not earlier , a portion of “great Pulitzer- winning journalists” have presented bogus stories? In a case of art imitating life, this past final season of The Wire had a Baltimore Sun newsguy making up and elaborating on a bogus story about serial murders. Ok, he did not know that detective McNulty created the appearance of serial homeless murders, but the reporter certainly dressed the story up and created his own dialogue, etc. And that reporter wins a Pulitzer when all the mature is shoveled out of sight to protect various butts in city government.
Would be great if some enterprising reporter or criminalist could go back and weed out some of the past BS propaganda swallowed by a gullible public.

I now believe the truth here is that I got duped.

No,no,no Chuck. That’s the journalism equivalent of, “the dog ate my homework.”

I’d go with either, “It’s been a long career, I’m sleep deprived and I’ve been coming under severe sniper fire,” or “I’m only human.”

Maybe Chuck felt that Sabatino’s previous case history of fraud and identity theft gave his source instant “street cred.”

From “Scoop Dog” to “Dupe Dog” in the blink of an eye. Maybe he’s going for the P.U.-litizer.