WATCHERS SUBMISSIONS
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
Yours truly received a paltry 1/3 of a vote in a talented, crowded field that included Michelle Malkin, Capn’ Ed, John Hawkins, and Varifrank among others. The winning non-Council post was from the aforementioned Varifrank whose post “Today, I was Unprofessional” I myself linked to here.
My own contribution was entitled “Groping for Answers”. It’s about the Gonzalez hearings and the “torture narrative” repeated over and over by the left.
This week’s winning Council post comes via The Moderate Voice and fisks the Rathergate report right smartly:
Perhaps the biggest issue is how could a bunch of highly paid executives and Rather violate basic journalistic confirmation rules that are taught in any Journalism 101 class and not confirm this report? The panel details the steps that led to the report getting on the air and takes them to task. And, yes, competition is heated.
But it still does NOT explain (from what we’ve read so far) in highly specific terms exactly how the basic checks and balances of solid confirmation were suspended and precisely WHY — even in the light of the warnings the network received.
The program had gotten enough red flags on this story to hold a bullfight in Madrid…
Yup.