Unlike my diary from yesterday about the "London" Guardian supposedly insulting DKos (in an Iain Duncan Smith guest column), today we have a news piece by a Observer writer (on the Guardian website; the papers work together), Paul Harris, at
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1418539,00.html , "The mole, the US media and a White House coup: The reporter who wasn't is part of a wider press scandal".
(Sorry if anyone already posted about this earlier.)
Here is a relevant excerpt, oddly enough NOT MENTIONING Kos at all, here or anywhere in the article:
"...If he had then been shown to be a gay prostitute, the scandal could have threatened a Democrat presidency. With 'Gannon' and Bush there has been no such outcry. The mainstream media has approached the story warily, while right-wing organisations such as Fox News have largely ignored it.
That has created a vacuum in the US media. It is a space being filled by 'bloggers' from both left and right who write personal journals, or weblogs, on the internet. It is here that the real media battles are now being fought. The internet has become a sort of Fifth Estate as the Fourth Estate of the mainstream media has slid toward irrelevance. ...
The left has also had victories. It was not the mainstream media that exposed Gannon, but left-wing website Media Matters for America which enlisted other liberal bloggers to help. All the significant breaks in the story emerged online, forcing Gannon to resign, reveal his real name and go into hiding."
So Kos is just some anonymous ""enlistee"" now?
Who's this Paul Harris guy anyway? Oy. That British mainstream media.