This morning, I received a copy of Tim Karr’s latest article over at mediachannel.org and just had to write something about it. The article is entitled “A Smear’s Journey to Page One,” and specifically documents the latest headline to make its way in front of all of us, that being the Kerry intern affair rumor.
The article has some great quotes from New Yorker media critic Ken Auletta and background information from the co-author of today’s Daily News article which decries the original story as posted on Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report. The theme of Mr. Karr’s article around the fact that major media outlets are talking about a story that was on the “second tier” of media outlets (starting with Drudge and others, and making its way through the blogosphere), and, after being kaboshed by one parties, made its way to the front pages of the Daily News, New York Times, and others when it reached some semblance of legitimacy.
I do find it very interesting that there were “mainstream” publications that ran with Drudge’s rumour at the onset - no wonder people claim media bias for the right and left in various cases - it’s because it is obviously there in a lot of cases.
