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Camille Gage v. John Hindraker of Powerline
The recent blog bashing article by Camille J. Gage has a bit of hidden irony (maybe hypocrisy is a better term) that is responded to by Powerline.
The piece accuses us of a failure to fact-check. The author refers to a news story we linked to last October which related to voter fraud in Wisconsin, and says that she “made a few phone calls” and determined that “[t]here was no factual basis for the voter fraud allegations.”
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I talked to Commentary Editor Eric Ringham today, and he acknowledged that the Strib didn’t do any fact-checking at all before they accused us of not fact-checking. That’s right: None. Zilch. Zippo. Nada. And Ms. Gage, if that’s really her name, has no knowledge about the voter fraud scandal which has now resulted in a federal criminal investigation.
So Gage says “blogs don’t fact check” in reference to some Powerline blogging, and in fact she had done no fact checking herself and now the issue Powerline had raised is a federal criminal investigation. Poweline claims this is the fifth time in six months they have been “defamed” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Hat tip: La Shawn Barber.
UPDATE: Powerline has responded. (HT: LaShawn) They’re using words like “libel” which is generating quite a buzz. A popular question today is, are bloggers public figures? It makes a difference, because there is a much higher standard of proof for libel when the person being written about is a public figure.
UPDATE 2: Blogenlust has an interesting take on Hindraker’s response.
http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2005/02/01/camille-gage-v-john-hindraker-of-powerline/trackback/
