More and more traditional media outlets/MSM struggle to cover current events, where social media and non-traditional coverage (a.k.a. blogs) flourish. This has to be taken with a grain of salt, however, as traditional media outlets typically have trained staff who check and verify facts as well as being upheld to a “standard”, whereas your social media and blog sites are not encumbered with such restrictions. Of course, even the most “respected” MSM outlets still publish fictitious, unverified, or poorly verified stories. Just look at the incidents with Jayson Blair and the New York Times or The CBS / Dan Rather George Bush Killian Documents Controversy.

I just saw this at Amazon.com for $3.99 and thought it was a good deal, it would cost over $20 at iTunes. And the download is DRM free MP3 so you can play it on anything. Awesome!

Ann Althouse covered Katie’s CBS anchor debut yesterday. Interesting take, given that Ann is female and she doesn’t seem to like how the CBS Evening News has been transformed into something that looks like it was spawned from Lifetime, We, or Oxygen.
It’s so annoying to feel forced into it! She’s standing up and wearing a weird white jacket buttoned conspicuously at the waist as if to argue with those who said she’d been photoshopped into semi-svelteness. Now, she’s sitting down, but in kind of a half standing position in front …