Apparently, the Huffington Post is still letting the dreadful Bobby Kennedy, Jr., write for public consumption. Apparently he and Brendan DeMelle, whoever that is, have embarked upon writing what may become a series of posts titled “Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report.” The Washington Post takes some offense to this. It seems they actually did report on many of the things they allegedly forgot to report.
The concept of a regular feature on News the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report is a good one. But go ahead and scroll through this HuffPo column and what you’ll see, again and again, are links to mainstream media sites, including The New York Times and The Boston Globe.
I have long been frustrated by the way some bloggers viciously deride the MSM even while relying day in and day out on the (expensive) news gathering of the self-same dreadful Fourth Estate. Talk about ungrateful! The irony gets ratcheted to a new level when the bloggers use that news and pretend that they’ve done the legwork themselves.
I believe that much of what the MSM passes off as news is just pure crap (perhaps I’m slightly influenced right now by having just finished reading It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News.) That, however, does not take away from the fact that they aren’t reporting stuff. Therefore it’s pretty lame to do what Kennedy and DeMelle did.
