Mark Steyn: What Story? [Jourbalism's Climategate Coverup]
Michael Gerson has lousy timing. In The Washington Post, in one of those now familiar elegies for old media, he writes: And the whole system is based on a kind of intellectual theft. Internet aggregators (who link to news they don't produce) and bloggers would have little to collect or comment upon without the costly enterprise of newsgathering and investigative reporting. The old-media dinosaurs remain the basis for the entire media food chain. That's laughably untrue in the Warmergate story. If you rely on the lavishly remunerated "climate correspondents" of the big newspapers and networks, you'll know nothing about the...
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Tags: Aggregators, Climate, Correspondents, Coverup, Dinosaurs, Elegies, Intellectual Theft, Mark Steyn, Media Food Chain, Michael Gerson, Newsgathering, Newspapers, Washington Post, X27