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• Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:53 PM

  Let's notice how the "MSM" plays this narrative.

  It will be interesting to see what the rest of the media will do with this story. Who will they quote? Which examples will they bring up? Bloggers? Journalists? Talk show hosts? Political operatives? Will they talk about Doris Kearns Goodwin's plagiarism or someone on the right? 10 bucks says they talk about an example of plagiarism that is on the left to "balance out" the example of plagiarism on the right. It will be probably be a false equivalency. Will they classify Ben as a journalist where it is a sin or as a blogger where it "doesn't really count"?

  What will the narrative about this story be? Who will they call to comment on it? Orville Schell? Dan Rather? Glen Reynolds? Matt Drudge? Will Ben be "the victim" of a liberal blogger attack? Or will it be seen as a failure of The Washington Post to do due diligence on hiring? Will he be held responsible for things he has written on his blog or not? What standard will apply. I use photos on my blog sometimes and I don't always credit the source. Will that be the type of comparison they use? Who will they bring up as examples?

  Who is chosen as examples will say something about how much of the story line "the media has a liberal bias" they have internalized.

  —spocko
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