Running John Edwards Up The Flog Pole
March 22, 2007 at 3:05 pm
A stunning blog post by the Politico’s Ben Smith — who admits getting the John Edwards story wrong, beats himself up over it, then opens up the comments section to a public flogging. Many of the commenters say it’s a dark day for blogging journalism. I’d respond that publicly debating and thrashing around the mistake shows Web 2.0 at its best. Instant and quite public ombudsmanship.
Ben, you got the story wrong. But you got the solution right.
chsw said,
March 22, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
Kind of like Dick Morris’ best column - his apologia for getting the 2004 election wrong.
chsw
KTB said,
March 23, 2007 @ 10:05 am
What exactly does this have to do with Web 2.0?