Who's a Nitwit?

Mike Barnicle is yet another dinosaur media member who's whistling past the graveyard as he lashes out at bloggers.

"these nitwits at home with their computers, these bloggers, who [snorts] think they're part of the news media, can then accuse us of being soft on this candidate or that candidate."

This self proclaimed gatekeeper of news reporting should be the last person to condescend to others as to what constitutes legitimate reporting:


"In 1998, Barnicle was forced to resign from the Boston
Globe amid questions about the sources of two of his columns. The first
column, dated August 2, 1998, allegedly contained unattributed material from the
1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin.[1]

Review of previous Barnicle columns by the Globe revealed another
possible fabrication in an October 8, 1995 piece. The column recounted the story
of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a
black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to
recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000 USD. When the Globe
could not locate the people in the story, Barnicle said he did not obtain the
story from any of the parents, but from a nurse, yet did not produce the name of
the nurse. When editors could not find a death that matched that of the child's
in the piece, Barnicle was asked to resign."

If this is the standards of Mike Barnicle's dying media, then I don't want any part of it. And if we're so insignificant, then why mention us at all. Doth protesteth too much Mike.