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Opinion: A New Take on JournoList: In Your 20s, You Form Your 'Team'
By not in system - AOL News(July 28) -- "The 20s are the age when you form your team." This thought lies at the center of Reihan Salam's somewhat unusual response to the JournoList controversy. For many conservatives, the exposed private e-mails of left-leaning journalists are, if not evidence of insidious liberal media bias or conspiracy, at least proof of some unwise and inappropriate groupthink. Salam, a New America fellow who also contributes to the National Review, isn't so sure. JournoList, in his view, was "a marriage of young and old, built on the premise that everyone had something to learn and to teach. It ...
Brent Bozell's Open Letter to the Washington Post: 20 Questions About the JournoList
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIn an open letter to Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell (a conservative) is asking Brauchli and Post blogger Ezra Klein, founder of the JournoList, to answer 20 questions about the paper's involvement with the now defunct JournoList list-serv. The JournoList was an online forum through which liberal journalists and academics would share information. It was recently shut down after controversial e-mails were leaked to The Daily Caller. One Post reporter -- David Weigel -- resigned amid controversy over e-mails he sent via the ...
Dave Weigel Hired by the Washington Post Company's 'Slate'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyDave Weigel, the blogger who resigned from The Washington Post after derogatory comments he made about conservatives on the Journolist list-serv were revealed, has landed a new gig. Interestingly, Weigel is moving to Slate, owned by The Washington Post company. The conservative Web site Newsbusters was critical of the move, writing: "The news that Weigel has been hired by a Post-owned publication suggests that his resignation was just a move to shield him -- and possibly the Post -- while the controversy blew over." It is worth noting that Weigel also has recently come under attack from ...
Opinion: Earth to Conservatives on 'Journolist' Flap: Get Over It
By Bob Maistros - AOL News(July 26) -- So conservatives are up in arms because liberal scribes mused on the Journolist message board about scuttling the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story and otherwise providing a helping hand to candidate Barack Obama? In the journalist -- as opposed to Journolist -- community, there's a term for a story like that: "Dog bites man." Dudes, we knew before the Nixon administration that the so-called "mainstream media" leaned heavily to the port side. The famous 1981 Lichter and Rothman survey showed, for instance, that 81 percent of the so-called "media elite" pulled the lever for George ...
The 'JournoList' Controversy, Fox News and the 'Helen Thomas Seat'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRecently, The Daily Caller revealed that liberal academics and journalists on the now-defunct "JournoList" (a supposedly off-the-record listserv where liberal and left-leaning writers would share ideas) suggested using government power to take down Fox News. That alone would have been newsworthy. But it turns out that one of the journalists disparaging Fox News in e-mails was Michael Scherer of Time magazine. And unlike the other Fox critics on the JournoList, Scherer may actually be in a position to use his authority to hurt Fox News. In this case, Scherer could potentially help block Fox ...
JournoList Liberal Conspiracy Story: Scandal or Overblown?
By not in system - AOL News(July 21) -- Conservative news site The Daily Caller sparked a controversy today after uncovering private e-mails from a now-defunct listserv of liberal journalists, JournoList. The documents show journalists discouraging one another from covering the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. In one case, The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman, now of Wired.com, encouraged his peers to label conservatives racists if they make an issue out of the controversial figure. Ackerman wrote at the time: If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or ...
Liberals on 'Journolist' Wanted Government to Shut Down Fox News
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAppearing on Fox News' "Hannity" on Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson announced that The Daily Caller would publish more controversial e-mails from the now defunct Journolist -- a listserv where hundreds of liberal journalists and academics would share information. "We're breaking a story," Carlson told Sean Hannity, "that contains exchanges between members of Journolist, in which some suggest that the federal government shut down Fox." This, of course, comes on the heels of revelations that Journolisters had attempted to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright in 2008. Carlson was right about ...
Who's In Ezra Klein's Klub?
By Dave - Politics DailyEzra Klein admits it, he runs a private group exclusive to professional journalists, left-wing bloggers, and other inside-the-beltway luminaries, but he doesn't see the problem, natch:Mike Calderone's story on Journolist basically gets the list serv right......As for sinister implications, is it "secret?" No. Is it off-the-record? Yes. The point is to create a space where experts feel comfortable offering informal analysis and testing out ideas. Is it an ornate temple where liberals get together to work out "talking points?" Of course not. Half the membership would instantly quit if anything ...
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