Following the forgeries story
filed in News, WTF on Sep.09, 2004
…has been remarkable. At this point, I’ve no idea if it’ll turn out to be true or not, but following the blogosphere as it is unfolding has been simply remarkable. Forgive the canned cliched sound of it, but this has been my first real, honest-to-goodness glimpse of the power of the information age at work. The interwovenness of the world of the weblogs — and the speed at which things happen in that world — is breathtaking.
And if this turns out to be “fo real”, then as Jonah Goldberg put it, “all hail the blogosphere”.
Relevant links:
CNS news
www.drudgereport.com
Little Green Footballs
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007760.php
scanned PDFs of the memos in dispute
UPDATE: http://www.indcjournal.com/ — see the “Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake?” story
UPDATE 2: The Weekly Standard joins the fray
September 10th, 2004 on 11:10:34 am
It really is amazing. Until yesterday I’d thought that blogs weren’t good for much more than ranting and sharing goofy stories, but sites like Little Green Footballs (link above) have demonstrated how news doesn’t have to come from a big name news organization to get credibility.