The Jim Romanesko media website, a product of the Poynter Institute, which purports to be an authoritative source on issues relating to journalism, is ignoring the issue of Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia and the Swift Boat Vets. Despite the fact that the blogosphere is exploding with information about this emerging scandal, despite the attention the New York Post and New York Daily News are paying, and despite Fox News Channel, the leading cable outlet, covering the story extensively, it remains in the media memory hole.

Ironically, Romanesko does choose to highlight an article nostalgically remembering what it was like in the Washington Post's newsroom the day of publication of the first Watergate story. Doubly ironically, this same article includes the following note:

You don't have to be big to do good journalism. And this is becoming more obvious as a new medium has appeared on the scene. Independent writers with weblogs (blogs) or websites are sometimes telling stories long before big media know what's what. Bloggers find tidbits of information on the Web and link to it. As other bloggers read, they note other bits. Readers post comments to the blogs, and sometimes those comments lead to more news. New software called ''news aggregators'' can bring news from important blogs directly to a reader's computer.

Posted by Thomas  8 11 04