June 05, 2003

Great story with the details on how one newspaper reader with a little help from the internet and the blogosphere exposed Maureen Dowd's fabricated Bush quote. With this great quote from Glenn Reynolds:

Uber-blogger Glenn Reynolds sees the emergence of online group fact-checking in a parallel to Russia's post-Soviet glasnost. "People are appalled, saying it's the decline of journalism," he told me. "But it's the same as when Russia started reporting about plane crashes and everyone thought they were just suddenly happening. It was really just the first time people could read about them."

(via Instapundit)

Posted by Greg Ransom