] WASHINGTON -- It was the first public allegation that
] CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning
] President Bush's National Guard service -- a highly
] technical explanation posted within hours of airtime
] citing proportional spacing and font styles.
]
] But it did not come from an expert in typography or
] typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was
] the work of Harry MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with
] strong ties to conservative Republican causes and who
] helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme
] Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica
] Lewinsky scandal, the Los Angeles Times has found.

I'm MemeStreaming this not because I think there's anything wrong with partisan sources becoming authorities in the news, but just to point out that I think the rise of blogging contributes to it. I'm actually inclined to think it's a good thing... after all, our legal system works on the principal that more truth is revealed when you have adversarial investigators.

On the other hand, as leftwingers and rightwingers start listening to increasingly divergent news sources, I think its getting a lot harder for one side to ever convince the other of anything. They quote Fox News to me, and I quote Air America Radio back to them.

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: