Chalk another one up for the bloggers

I thought my fixation on MSM news coverage of the Duke lacrosse team knew no bounds last spring, but I never hit the blogs for my fix. Maybe I should have.

You could do worse than the New York Times. Much, much worse.
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I read articles from the New York Times and other news outlets. I emerged from it all thinking, "These players are guilty." But new information about the case has convinced some that the MSM, particularly the New York Times, covered the case unfairly.

Newsweek admitted it erred; others, such as the New York Times, have not — much to the chagrin of this article's writer and the sources he quotes from the Times' own newsroom.

I'm not sure who had it right first. I have yet to see the New York Times' smoking gun. The matter will be probably be settled in some scholarly journal. But until then, examine the details now. You might find yourself wishing you had done the same weeks after the news first broke.

Some of the same bloggers who have railed against MSM coverage of the Duke lacrosse team from the outset have contribued good coverage that defied the MSM's credulous narrative.

Take K.C. Johnson's blog, for example. Johnson, professor of history at Brooklyn College, has dedicated an entire blog to the case, replete with mucho entries that explore the story's nuances.

Johnson has reported in Durham several times, according to New York Magazine. Allow me to repeat: A blogger did actual reporting. He spent days talking to 15 North Carolina law enforcement agencies and prosecutors to find out whether the Durham D.A. and police department conducted its investigation legally.

His site contains more depth than any MSM Duke lacrosse thread I've seen. I wish I knew about Durham in Wonderland when I was suspended in the Times.