The Definition of Irony

I always thought it was editors that made newspaper writers act like morons, but apparently they are trained to do so.

This weekend some idiot journalism professor wrote an op-ed in the LA Times decrying how bloggers don't actually fact check anything or do original reporting. In the course of writing the piece, however, he forgot to actually do any investigation into his claims or fact check the assertions given to him by the Times editorial staff.

There are a million blogs out there that don't do any original reporting (mostly because, unlike reporters, they aren't paid to do investigative journalism). That he happened to pick the one that (I think it is fairly safe to say) does the most and best original reporting is hilarious.