The editor of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader cannot take any criticism from the outside about the blatant bias displayed by one of his key political reporters. Money quote:
The internet is both a good and a bad thing. The bad is that it has allowed people who hate to distribute their vitriol anonymously, um, using gang emails, using blogs, what have you, with barely a shred of proof, manipulating facts, to perpetuate an ideology. And it’s a truly sad thing. And I guess that I would suggest that I’m not going to dignify that kind of crap with an answer.
Using blogs to criticize newspapers? How sad. How awful. How terrifying. I think we’ve hit a nerve here, haven’t we? When you stumble onto the truth, it sometimes hurts.
The Dish 