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by digby


The Edwards campaign is standing by their bloggers as they came under assault by the rightwing noise machine and good for them.

But this is going to be the pattern unless the news media recognises that they have a substantial number of readers who will not tolerate a reprise of the kind of rightwing smear job collusion we've seen in the past. No matter how tittilating the story, when a conservative hitman like William Donohue comes calling with a sob story about how "offended" he is by someone's "vulgar" language, professional journalists should put his phony complaints into context. There's no excuse for this failure to expose the agenda of the rightwing noise machine anymore. With lexis-nexis and Mr Google, it's just too easy to research the accuser and put his comments into context before they breathlessly rush to report the latest little GOP oppo nugget of misinformation. In many cases, if they do this, they will see that the story is not newsworthy in the first place and if it is, it is much more complicated (and interesting!) than the faux outrage
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Today we see the press running with another manufactured scandal about Pelosi's airplane travel with all the glee of a bunch of 7th grade schoolkids on their way to the beach.

Enough is enough. Blogpac has put together a campaign to hit the news organizations that ran with the blogger story yesterday without providing any context on Donohue or the McCain staff. It's great that Edwards didn't cave on the issue, but this will not be the last of it. They are running with Clinton Rules again and this time they are going to get some grief for it.

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