{"id":1656,"date":"2003-08-26T03:43:32","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/washington-post-cribbing-research-from-blogs\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:12:28","slug":"washington-post-cribbing-research-from-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/washington-post-cribbing-research-from-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post cribbing research from blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RonK at the Daily Kos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003949.html\" title=\"Operation Snark Hunt\">points out today<\/a> that it appears the Washington Post&#8217;s Dana Millbank is doing a lot of research by reading weblogs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Of late, our Dear Leader seems to have become Fair Game in the Big Media. And WaPo&#8217;s Dana Milbank seems to have been reading the blogs.<\/p>\n<p>  What&#8217;s the earlier blog reference you can find for each of the observations in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A44591-2003Aug25.html\" title=\"Not Up to Code? Embellishing the Flag, Then the Web Site\">Milbank&#8217;s 2003-08-26 column<\/a>?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can date two of the referenced items in the article (and did in Kos&#8217; comment thread):<\/p>\n<p>Flag desecration: July 25^th^, 2003 &#8212; I mentioned it <a href=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/flag_desecratio.html\" title=\"Flag Desecration\">here<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/john.hoke.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/constitutional_amendment_to_prevent_presidents_from_desecrating_the_flag.php\" title=\"John P. Hoke's Asylum: Constitutional Amendment to prevent Presidents from desecrating the flag\">John<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003535.html#003535\" title=\"Bush disrespects flag\">Kos<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyethwire.blogspot.com\/2003_07_01_wyethwire_archive.html#105915666121974904\" title=\"Bush desecrates American flag\">Wyeth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion: Aug.\u00a020^th^, 2003 &#8212; I mentioned it <a href=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/compassion.html\" title=\"Compassion\">here<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_08_17_atrios_archive.html#106141825951190619\" title=\"Creepy\">Atrios<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esoterically.net\/log\/archives\/000871.html\" title=\"Esoterically.net: Hypocrite\">Len<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003882.html#003882\" title=\"What 'compassion' means to Bush\">Kos<\/a> via &#8216;K.Y.&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind at all if Millbank is discovering news items worth commenting on through the blog network &#8212; I certainly do it all the time &#8212; though I do wish that the sources for the individual items were sourced and given credit. I do my best to do that with each post that I pick up from someone else, it seems only fair for a <em>real journalist<\/em> to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RonK at the Daily Kos points out today that it appears the Washington Post&#8217;s Dana Millbank is doing a lot of research by reading weblogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}