The Copy Cat
Mar 28th, 2006 at 10:31 pm by Susie
Billmon’s got a good, long post on the enthusiasm with which the corporate media has embraced right-wing political bloggers:
As a result, the amount of housebreaking required to turn a right-wing lunatic with a blog into a “respectable” conservative with a newspaper column seems to be fairly trivial. So instead of coaxing the radicals to the center, the media establishment is being coaxed further and further to the right — and rewarded for staying there.
Which is why in a way I’m sorry Baby Ben’s plagiaristic sins came to light. It gave the Posties an easy out. It would have been much more interesting (and significant) to see whether the Washington Post — the old Pravda on the Potomac, the paper Richard Nixon loved to hate — really would have been willing to keep on board a web columnist who clearly believed, in his heart of hearts, that Coretta Scott King (and no doubt her husband as well) were communists. (I’d also throw in “Augustine’s” comment about abortions reducing black crime, but that would hardly be fair, given that the same theory has been seriously entertained by no less an expert than a former Secretary of Education.)
he’s been mia for so long… i hope he comes back full.
SOLAR ECLIPSE TOMORROW… Totality for S. Asia, and N. Africa…
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html
Oh, boy, will tomorrow be a wild day…
–mf