Bloggers Who Want to Make the News, Not Report It

MediaMatters details the story on the conservative ‘sphere’s Keystone Cops rush to indict CNN’s correspondent Michael Ware’s reporting on the Iraq War because of what amounts to poor reporting by Matt Drudge. This foolishness had Powerline reported in the Washington Times unironically commenting that “Ware is an extreme manifestation of an all-too-common phenomenon — the journalist who wants to make the news, not report it.” And all of this, on a day that saw John McCain (accompanied by 100 troops, 3 Black Hawk helicopters and 2 Apache gunships) gamely trying to trick American voters into thinking that Iraq is just fine, thank you very much), in a effort to discredit on-the-ground journalists reporting An Inconvenient Truth.Update: Still more Keystone blogging from the right, with still more effort by them to blame others for their mistakes.