Check out the extraordinary work of one David Nishimura on the Iraq museum question. He owned this story from the beginning and completely out-foxed all the major media. Check out this array of stories: an astonishing indication of how blogs are beginning to be among the most reliable forms of news out there.
ONE HACK STILL GETS IT WRONG: I missed this recent column of Frank Rich’s on the alleged ransacking of the National Museum in Baghdad. He repeats almost the same non-facts as his previous column, makes no attempt to correct the record and goes on:
[O]ur government is now trying to cover up its culpability in the desecration of the Baghdad museum with smoke bombs of spin. On May 7, Lt. Gen. William Wallace told reporters that “as few as 17 items” in the National Museum were unaccounted for – a figure that then allowed administration apologists to minimize the tragedy. But this and other low-ball American estimates of loss are, as one Unesco fact-finder told The International Herald Tribune last week, “a distortion of reality.” The U.N.’s team of experts estimates that at least 2,000 to 3,000 pieces are missing from the museum and that the entire two million volumes in the National Library and Archives are ash.
Will Rich correct? Should he read more blogs? Or will he pull a Dowd?
REGIONS OF MIND: The wonderful blog by Geitner Simmons now has a new address. Check it out. While I’m at it, here’s a promising newcomer as well.
The Dish 