MSM Rules

By Matthew Yglesias
CBS officially doesn't care that one of its contributors is a liar; they say they hired him because a rival network hired Glenn Beck, so I guess they decided they needed a fool of their own. This is the kind of thing that makes it a little hard to take seriously the notion that the news biz was all about the unadorned pursuit of truth until bloggers ruined everything.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/msm-rules/42586/