In The News

The Strib's Bob Von Sternberg writes about blogs starting with a familiar face:

Scott Johnson had just gotten off the phone with Tom Brokaw, even as a TV crew was camped outside his office in downtown Minneapolis, while he tried to explain Tuesday what it feels like "to be sitting in the eye of a hurricane. It's unbelievable."

Johnson wasn't getting his 15 minutes of celebrity because of his day job as an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank. Rather (as it were), the attention has come because of his role in helping torpedo a story about President Bush's military records that blew up in the faces of CBS executives and their anchorman Dan Rather.

I suppose even the Strib had to cover Powerline eventually.

The story gets the usual plaudits:

Bloggers are credited with keeping afloat the story of Sen. Trent Lott's admiring comments about the now-deceased Sen. Strom Thurmond and his 1948 segregation-based campaign for the presidency, until the mainstream media swarmed all over it. They nurtured controversy about Kerry's Vietnam record alongside veterans opposed to Kerry.

There seemed to be no mention of Powerline's other big credit. Peculiar.

Posted by Mitch at September 23, 2004 05:40 AM | TrackBack