The Crusade against Blogistan

CBS has one of their snarky attacks on all that is good in the world on their website, as mentioned by Eschaton's Atrios. Dr. Black points out the hideous, libelous falsehoods promoted in the story, which have since been changed. Oh, and again.

Anyway, to boil it down for the non-atriots, this guy Duncan Black, an economist, decides in 2002 to start a blog, Eschaton, which through a thorough whomping of Trent Lott and other stories gains quite a bit of net cred and a following of thousands. Gallons of thousands. He keeps his alter ego a closely guarded secret for employment reasons, writing under the pseudonym Atrios. In 2004, he's asked to join a bran' spankin' new organization, Media Matters, which happens to do the same kind of media watchdogging he does so well on his blog. Shortly after returning from vacation, Dr. Black attends the DNC in Beantown, where he divulges his secret identity to all interested. There's even a picture. Anyway, CBS lacks the wit to figure out this time difference, and allows a claim that Atrios was working for Media Matters "all along." I wish I had the time machine they suppose Dr. Black to have had.