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Sunday 31 May 2009

[Jeffrey] Rosen can give up blogging and every other perceived vice all he wants. But until he renounces the defining practices of what Sullivan calls “standard Washington reporting” — indiscriminately granting anonymity and thus producing accountability-free claims — he’ll still be the same Jeffrey Rosen producing the same sorts of reckless pieces. The effort to depict Sonia Sotomayor as “dumb and obnoxious” was notable only because of how extreme it was. Otherwise, there was nothing unusual about it. To the contrary, as Sullivan says, the unreliable, misleading methods it used were perfectly common for blogging Washington “reporting. Glenn Greenwald

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