Instapundit links to this story about the growing power of blogs and how some in the mainstream media are reacting to having their reporting fact checked by the blogging community worldwide. Here’s the meat:
If you don’t believe that bloggers are giving newspapers a headache, talk to Nick Coleman. A veteran newspaper columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Coleman is in the middle of an old-fashioned feud with one of the leading conservative Web logs in the country.
So far, his battle with Powerlineblog.com — Time magazine’s “blog of the year” — has sparked an anger-spewing column by Coleman, an ombudsman’s clarification, and a threat by a leading bank to pull advertising from the newspaper.
Moreover, it has confirmed the growing ability of blogs to get under the skin of the mainstream media. “This is just the beginning,” an exasperated Coleman warns. “People need to pay attention to [bloggers]. To watch out.”
Nick Coleman, Dan Rather and their ilk are like the Wizard of Oz when the curtain was pulled back and the fraud was revealed. Except the Wizard was gracious about it.
Okay, let me see if I have this right. Coleman is what a liar becasue he believes there are some people who are skeptical of democracy spreading throughout Iraq into the Middle East? Gee you don’t really think that everyone believes that the spread of democracy in Iraq is a shoo-in do you? Hey not even the majority of Republicans believe that! Or maybe you think that some people are skeptical but the ones shown in the blog from his article are not worthy to be quoted. It wouldn’t have mattered who he quoted, they would have had their characters assascinated and Coleman’s words dismissed and ridiculed not because they are untruthful or even his own particular point of view. They are mocked and he is accussed of spinning when in fact there are people who are sekptical that democracy will take hold in the Iraq and the Middle East. They are mocked because he dares to report the opposing view point. You and powerblog are engaged in nothing more than a form of censorship through intimidation.
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