MICKEY KAUS says that the Washington Post’s bogus “talking points” story undercuts claims by Big Media outfits that they do better fact-checking:

What the Allen incident shows is that credentialed MSM reporters are under just as much “scoop” pressure as bloggers–maybe more pressure, since they must meet to a set of rigid deadlines, with demands (in Allen’s case) not only from the reporter’s own paper but from all the other papers that subscribe to his paper’s news service, not to mention all those apparently ineffective editor-checkers who are waiting around to go home. Because bloggers don’t have these rigid corporate deadlines, they may actually find it easier to balance the “scoop” imperative with the “check” imperative–if a story hasn’t checked out, they can just wait an hour or two.

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