Posted by David Kopel: Two Cheers for Newhounds http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_08-2007_07_14.shtml#1184443141
My latest [1]media column for the Rocky Mountain News praises the citizen activist website [2]Newshounds.us for providing checks and balances to Bill O'Reilly's extremely deceptive coverage of a controversy at Boulder High School. (The coverage is discussed in depth in an [3]Issue Paper I wrote for the Independence Institute.) I wish that Newshounds were less angry in its tone, but I do think that it sometimes plays a useful role in providing facts which are omitted in Fox's coverage of issues. The column also discusses a new ranking of the most influential political blogs in Colorado (my Independence Institute colleague Ben Degrow won second place for [4]Mount Virtus), and the Denver Post's failure to fully correct a major error: incorrectly claiming that Powell, speaking in Aspen, had predicted a Sunni victory in Iraq; he actually predicted a Shia victory. References 1. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_5628743,00.html 2. http://www.newshounds.us/ 3. http://www.i2i.org/articles/IP_3_2007.pdf 4. http://bendegrow.com/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
