EasonGate Postscript

Eason Jordan, the CNN news executive who alleged that U.S. troops intentionally targeted journalists at a forum in Davos, Switzerland, resigned yesterday under the pressure and reporting of many blogs throughout the past week. Michelle Malkin, Hugh Hewitt and the invaluable website EasonGate.com have been among the blogosphere's leaders in covering Le Affair Eason.

Several of the nation's most prominent newspapers didn't publish a word on this story -- at least not until today. And one of those papers, the Los Angeles Times, contains a pretty egregious error illustrating the LA Times' ignorance of well-read, informative blogs.

The LA Times writes, midway through their story:

Also, a website called Easongate.com, featuring the executive's corporate portrait on its home page, offered a clearing-house of criticism related to Jordan's statements. The website linked to 25 other sites in its "Blogroll," with mainstream columnists such as Roger L. Simon and more obscure bloggers such as "Red State Rant" and "Winds of Change."

There are two people named Roger Simon. One is a columnist for U.S. News and World Report. The other is a popular blogger who I read regularly. The latter is more informative, but the LA Times automatically calls him "mainstream" because they assume he's employed by a mainstream media company. Winds of Change is hardly an obscure blog, but since the LA Times doesn't keep up with the blogs, they're well behind.

UPDATE: Thanks, Instapundit for the Instalanche! It's the first we've gotten, and hopefully we'll get more hits in the future with our fact-checking of the press.