Back in the early 1970s, two intrepid liberal reporters working for the Washington Post could set in motion a scandal (with plenty of help from a far left Congress out for blood) that would ultimately engulf the President of the United States.
Today, the Post needs a little help:
Evidently, Facebook is reserved for New York Times reporters looking for crowdsourced dirt. Speaking of which, at Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard links to the above Tweet from the Post’s Aaron Blake and responds:
As NewsBusters has been warning you all year, since President Obama has no record to run for reelection on, the media are going to be throwing more mud at his opponents than likely anything you’ve ever seen.
Fasten your seatbelts.
Back in June, when the Post crowdsourced their search through Sarah Palin’s emails, Ace responded, “this Washington Post liberal-blogger crowdsource effort dovetails with my earlier points about the fact there is apparently no longer any wall at all between the left-wing fever swamps and the inaccurately-termed ‘mainstream media.’
“They’re now just operating openly together. Hand-in-glove, cheek-by-jowl,” Ace added. Back then, Allahpundit wrote “crowdsourcing’s a smart, sleek information-gathering technique. Thanks to the Times and WaPo for legitimizing it for conservative media like Fox News, which will now happily put it to good use doing oppo research on the left.”
Of course, Post employees known to be involved in their own crowdsourced efforts would consider that racist.
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