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June 28, 2005

All news is good news, for now

Last evening I blogged on the Downing Street Memos receiving front page treatment for this morning's Washington Post.

Even with conservatives trying to turn this anvil into a way to blow sunshine up our asses or sticking fingers in their ears to hope DSM will just go away (incidentally I'm referring to the comments on that post, not the post itself..there's no permalink for comments), it continues to dog Bush.

This morning's Post efforts offer no insights that have not already been discussed. The piece is essentially a timeline and summation of the memos. The key thing is that they're sitting smack on the front page rather than hidden down below the fold in the back of section A.

Nice.

The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Cooper did Downing Street up today as well.

Cooper credits lefty bloggers (specifically a group of six Daily Kos people) for getting the issue up and running. The Big Brass Alliance merits no mention. Cooper tries to paint the efforts to keep DSM on the media radar a strictly a fly by night operation rather than a concerted effort by over 600 blogs.

He also refers to Conyers hearings on the matter as "mock hearings", conveniently leaving out the fact that Sensenbrenner banned the hearings from the Capitol.

Even with Cooper's slanted reporting, the WSJ felt compelled to report on the memos. And even with the story buried on page A4, the fact that conservative journalism is paying attention is a victory.

Attention=Victory.

Posted by Carla at June 28, 2005 11:54 AM