Dan Gilmore, famed journalist and Director of UC Berkeley's Center for Citizen Media:
One of the most amazing episodes in modern American journalism has emerged from a flagrantly inaccurate and misguided Time magazine column by Joe Klein. He’s a political writer whose work in this case may become Exhibit A for what’s wrong with the craft today.
Wow. Now that's a slap in Joe Klein's face right there, and it doesn't get any better from there. Joe Klein makes huge mistake, admits essentially that he hasn't read the legislation he's attacking, and then neither he nor Time have bothered to add corrections to the piece in question online, nor in the print magazine.
It truly is the definition of journalistic malpractice.
Wired's Ryan Singel isn't much kinder to Klein's clearly deficient intellect:
Time ought to stop Klein from writing about any substantive topic, especially FISA.
Because when it comes to these topics, Klein is well beyond stupid. He's dangerous.
Time clearly gives Klein free reign to do and saw whatever the f' he wants. He is infallible, no matter how badly he screws up, and no matter how much disrepute his words may bring to the magazine. It is truly bizarre and unwarranted.