Blogger on Media

Paul Mirengoff, a conservative blogger, brought to light the fact that the documents CBS News used in covering George W. Bush's National Guard service were forged. (Of course, my husband and I think the forged documents were GOP plants, designed to discredit the press, but no matter. Did you notice that Dan Rather "retired" soon afterward? Throughout his career, he had given the Republicans a run for their money.)

Anyway, Mirengoff spoke to a group of students at NYU recently about the alleged effect that blogging journalists could have on the mainstream media. NYU invited Mirengoff to speak as part of the journalism department's "brown bag" lunch series.

You can read the whole article here.