Jukebox In My Head

News organizations are under fire these days. I find myself sticking up for my former occupation, especially for those toiling in the fires, the reporters and editors who are out there on the line doing the stories.

But it isn't difficult to see why people are fed up and looking to other sources for news, too. The Smoking Gun, a website that publishes public documents not found elsewhere, recently caught The Los Angeles Times publishing a bombshell story based on forged documents. And just this week it looked into the history of Akon, a rapper who has peddled stories about growing up gangster to reporters for years, and found that his tales were lies and exaggerations. Read my entire rant at my other blog, NewsGator Daily News.