New Year's Plans At The Horse's Mouth
January 2, 2008 -- 11:55 AM EST // //
First off, a happy new year to all of you hearty regulars who have stuck with this site, and to everyone else, too.
A couple quick notes on what's happening here in 2008. First off, this blog is going to be making much greater efforts to actually engage the media figures who pop up here regularly. The idea will be to see if we can get them to respond to reader criticism more directly and/or to discuss the issues that are frequently raised here and elsewhere.
Which brings us to Richard Cohen's amazing column in The Washington Post yesterday. Its first sentence was this:
John Edwards lied about the cost of his haircuts.Now, this blog followed the media's coverage of the haircut pretty closely. And I don't remember Edwards ever being caught lying about the cost of the haircuts. And indeed, both Steve Benen and Atrios quickly called out Cohen's crack as false.
This is pretty straightforward. If Cohen has evidence that Edwards lied, he should say so. And so I sent Cohen this email today:
I don't recall this happening, though I may well have missed it. I was wondering, could you point me towards any evidence that this happened? And if it turns out that this is false, will you consider running a correction?My guess is Cohen won't answer this, since doing so would likely require that he admit to a falsehood. But if he does answer, I'll let you know.
Anyway, in addition to trying to engage your media figures more, this blog has other plans: It's undergoing a redesign, and will be relaunched with a working comments section as soon as we're able, hopefully by the end of this month. Stay with us.
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