MSM Plays Catchup With "Fact-Free" Blogs (Thank You, Tina Brown Edition)
Well well well. What do you know. Just up, from the NYT:
A conversation between Karl Rove's lawyer and a journalist for Time magazine led Mr. Rove to change his testimony last year to the grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case, people knowledgeable about the sequence of events said Thursday.Well there you have it. I think we ran this story mmm.....yesterday, if memory serves me.
Mr. Rove's lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, spoke in the summer or early fall of 2004 with Viveca Novak, a reporter for Time magazine. In that conversation, Mr. Luskin heard from Ms. Novak that a colleague at Time, Matthew Cooper, might have interviewed Mr. Rove about the undercover C.I.A. officer at the heart of the case, the people said.
Update: People have commented on the "summer or early fall" bit. That sounds like awfully carefully parsed Luskin-ese to me. Matt Cooper was subpoenaed in late May of 2004. Technically Luskin could be talking about the conversation having taken place a couple of weeks later.
PS: I should add -- many, many thanks to all the people who passed through here and added their thoughts and sounded out their ideas on this story over the past 24 hours. MSM writers don't have that luxury. We may not have news bureaus in Aruba, but when it comes to taking advantage of "group think" we bloggers really do have a leg up.
Update 2: Jeralyn has more thoughts on the legal implications of the situation. And John has a few choice words for Tina "fact-free" Brown.
(graphic by Monk at Inflatable Dartboard)
posted by Jane Hamsher @ 12/01/2005 08:00:00 PM
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