Amazing confluence

This year has been amazing to me. Conservatives have complained for years about bias in the media, but the standard argument has been that there's no proof of bias and bias is in the eye of the beholder. Then along comes Ra^thergate, and CBS is exposed as a fraud for all the world to see. The Swiftvets had already raised serious questions about the old media's impartiality. You would have thought that the media would be much more circumspect, but their hubris overcame good sense.

Now along comes the "explosives" story, and before you can absorb the story, it turns in to "NYTrogate". It's almost incomprehensible that the media could be this stupid, but they are. The only conclusion I can come to is that they arrogantly thought they could get away with it and no one would realize they had.

This is a new day. As a wrote about in The Cathedral, the Bazaar and Blogs, "open source" reporting will eventually replace the old closed source system, and we will all be better off for it.