Thursday, May 19, 2005

Shorter Jeff Jarvis:

"Waaaaah! Waaaaah! We want another scalp! We hate Newsweek! Why won't David Brooks help us lynch someone there?"

(Folks, I've been saying it for a couple of days and the Brooks column (with its talk of "Whining media bashers") confirms it: The big story here is that heads really might not roll this time. When the Internet Right began chanting "Newsweek Lied, People Died," or launching salvos like this, don't you think they thought the bloodletting they craved would come within days? Don't you think they felt entitled? Don't you think they think they get to decide these things now? I don't know if it's just a minor glitch or a long-term reversal, but it looks to me as if the right-wing media destruction machine has ground to a halt.)

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