Monday, September 05, 2005

September 5, 2005 @ 11:13 am Who’s Watching The Watchers? Not always the establishment press, but when the press drops the ball then the blogosphere steps in. Bloggers were recently given credit for chasing Condi back to business in Washington, and they caused such an uproar on another story that they turned the Washington Post around 180 degrees. This from Editor and Publisher: NEW YORK In its Sunday edition, the Washington Post quoted a "senior Bush official" who said that "as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor] Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency." This, of course, was meant to make the governor look foolish and spread the blame around for the disastrous response to the disaster, though it washard to imagine on what grounds the newspaper would quote an unnamed source in this case. Several hours of blogosphere howling ensued. Later in the day, the Post ran this correction, or rather, 180-degree turn: "A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26.   And for help keeping an eye on the press let me recommend "Editor and Publisher" link 11:38:22 AM    comment []

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