Susie:

Longtime political reporter Walter Shapiro thinks it’s time for another bloggers ethics panel. Because those horrible, horrible bloggers are posting erroneous stories just to beat the news cycle! (Bad, bad bloggers!)…

As a rule of thumb, liberal bloggers aren’t the ones with the “slippery ethics.” If [Shapiro wasn’t] a lazy “he said, she said” journalist who throws false equivalence into a story to appear “fair,” [he’d] know that liberal bloggers, much like the corporate journalists, actually do attempt to get the facts straight. (Even though most of us aren’t getting paid to do so.) We don’t manufacture stories out of whole cloth, nor do we knowingly twist and distort the facts. (*cough* Judy Miller *cough*)

You don’t, Susie, but some did–during the 2008 primary. Against their own side. Some of the websites that have done really commendable work (i.e. attorney firings) were also some of the worst when it came to vilifying Hillary (i.e., Whoever Kidnapped Josh Marshall).