Once again - this time when FOrd caved into the christian right and dissed gays - the NYT "reported" like the stemographer it is, while bloggers responded with both contravening facts are real investigation.
To quote from Is YOur Car Gay ?
In one amazing example of the distributed intelligence that the Web has become, Aravosis published a clip from a trade publication which named the two Ford negotiators who cut the anti-gay deal with Wildmon: David Leitch and Ziad Ojakli. And then, overnight, the commenters on Aravosis's blog figured out that Leitch and Ojakli were both former senior Bush White House officials.
This is reporting, even though no one is paying for it, and even though no journalistic brand-name is attached to it. It's also advocacy: information assembled for a purpose. Does that make it less than journalism? No: it makes it more than stenography, which is what so much of the MSM has embarrassingly become.
Three cheers once again for Americablog
As for the NYT - no credibility left to lose.