The response from the right to allegations that “Armstrong Williams was paid for his opinions”:http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jan/20050115News006.asp (which comes after discovery that the Federal government has been distributing propaganda disguised as news) has been a round of “but Democrats do it, too” and finger-pointing at a few _bloggers_, as though there was some sort of equivalency.
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Kerry’s picked up an awful lot of newspaper endorsements, but that’s no big deal — right? Because newspapers are all so liberal.
Despite having worked for two conservative-leaning newspapers and a conservative-leaning news magazine, I would have thought Ed Gillespie was right on that score. I would have thought wrong:
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I have joined a blogger group called the “Progressive Blogger Alliance” because it’s always nice to meet new people and make new friends. Here’s what the PBA is about:
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According to Atrios (I know he has a real name now, I just can’t remember it), Bush/Cheney 04 is “accusing the Philly Inquirer”:http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/10/whiners.html of abandoning its “journalistic integrity” by running a series of _editorials_ criticizing the Bush administration.
*_Editorials_*.
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Ken was right to be “suspicious of the Spanish interview”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/index.php?id=916 — the translation was accurate, but it turns out that the Spanish interviewer was _paraphrasing_, something (to my mind) unacceptable in an interview.
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