Firedoglake gains national recognition for Libby coverage

Brava! (4.00 / 2)

The FDL team has performed an outstanding service with their in-depth coverage of the entire Plame affair, from the original reports of the "outing" of Valerie Plame by the White House, through the Grand Jury process and the formal charging of Scooter Libby, and finally the trial and jury deliberation. 

Jane, Christy, Marcy and the entire FDL team have explained this complex process better than any other media outlet.  They've helped legitimize bloggers and leveled the playing field with MSM journalists.  Well done!

Connecticut Bob

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by: Bob Adams @ Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 01:46:49 AM UTC

That is the underlying story here (4.00 / 1)

Not only how well and thorough these bloggers were but also in many-- but certainly not all-- cases how much this story and case were impeded not just by conservative misinformation but by willful neglect on the part of the MSM.

Media Matters has their "Dishonor Roll" of "media figures and outlets that have distinguished themselves with their flawed coverage of the case."

It ain't pretty.

#  Time magazine and former Time magazine correspondent John Dickerson
# The Washington Post

  * Editorial board, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, and those who echoed the Post editorial page's misinformation
  * The Washington Post op-ed page and Outlook section editors
  * Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward
  * Headline writers
  * Media writer Howard Kurtz
  * Ombudsman Deborah Howell
  * Columnist Richard Cohen

# ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper

..and the list just keeps going...

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by: Scarce @ Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 01:56:07 AM UTC

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This diary is front-paged at Daily Kos now (4.00 / 1)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/6/211012/0011

...but gets only one other comment here, besides myself.

(Things which make you go "hmm?")

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by: Scarce @ Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 03:19:13 AM UTC

There's a 136 comments in DKos (0.00 / 0)

As of 10:29 am 3/7/07

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

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by: connecticutyankee @ Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 15:25:37 PM UTC

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FDL proved they are head and shoulders above (4.00 / 1)

the MSM while proving  beyond a doubt GREAT and HONEST reporting can be done  without making believe you have no point of view like the MSM likes to pretend.

Thre weren't two equal Truths like the MSM tried to portray to the public to this case there was only one Truth and the Jury found it rather easily.

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by: ctkeith @ Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 04:53:05 AM UTC

Nice job (4.00 / 1)

on rounding up the FDL coverage and singing their praises.  I saw it over on dailykos and thought I'd come here to say thanks. 

They did a fabulous job!

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by: Violet @ Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 16:34:52 PM UTC