Credit
CBS falsely claims to be first reporting on fast and furious. Except, of course, we know who really first reported it. And it seems that Sharyl Attkisson won the Edward R. Murrow award for her Fast and Furious coverage.
A few things on this. First, I was unaware that, apparently, wikipedia has been scrubbing David and Mike’s contribution to the case. And David says more is coming. As far as the credit goes, I think it’s pretty weak to pat yourself on the back and not bother to note the sources in the gun blogs. However, when the gunwalker stuff first getting play by David and Mike, it was mostly on an examiner.com site and, early on, I tried to follow it but would get lost in all that self-referential links that to more self-referential links. So, tracking it down was tedious. I think the story would have gotten out quicker were that not the case.
June 13th, 2012 at 11:13 am
I think that’s what the journalist guides to gunwalker were written for. It’s a lot of material to wade through, a lot of names/dates/event to keep straight, and frankly it’s damn depressing to think that it happened.
June 13th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Wiki is generally run by left-wing nuts. Don’t trust ANYTHING they say on a contentious issue.