If you wanted a sign of the growing importance of the UK news media in reporting US politics (a phenomenon supported by Matt Drudge, the now global online market in English language news, and the largely apolitical US press), here it is.
Media Matters, a Democratic-leaning MSM rebuttal service, turns its powerful fisking attention to this Times report. Continue reading
I don’t know John Crewdson, but I’m sorry he’s out of a job. He’s the subject of this post at the Chicago Reader:
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded last month to Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Pasteur Institute in Paris for discovering the HIV virus in 1983 — but not to the American scientist Robert Gallo.
This result might be interpreted as the ultimate vindication of reporter John Crewdson, who in 1988, in a 50,000-word story in the Chicago Tribune, argued that Gallo — credited back then with codiscovering the virus — had merely rediscovered Montagnier’s virus, which had been sent to Gallo as a professional courtesy. Continue reading