Warblogger Credibility, RIP?

Eric Boehlert writes what strikes me as a stinging and fatal indictment of the behaviour of political bloggers in covering the Iraq War – in this case, the role of conservative so-called “warbloggers”. An undue fascination with saving face at the cost of accuracy and transparency is certainly not unique to blogging, but it is a problem that particularly bedevils poli-bloggers, and seems to me to be the main culprit – perhaps more important than even ignorance and incompetence – in creating a shrill and uncompromising forum for discussion.