Isn't the "JournoList scandal" just "There was a Google Group that lots of journalists on the left subscribed to?"
Journalists have always talked to each other. The fact that we have an auditable mailing list of one instance of it just tells us something we already know.
"If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them – Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares – and call them racists"
Yes, that sounds like journalists just "talking to each other."
>Isn't the "JournoList scandal" just "There was a Google Group that lots of journalists on the left subscribed to?"
No, they were coordinating messaging to get the results they wanted. That's the scandal, because they were simultaneously presenting themselves as Objective Journalists.
Journalists have always talked to each other. The fact that we have an auditable mailing list of one instance of it just tells us something we already know.