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Rollback in PressThink. A brilliant description and analysis of the Bush administration’s stance towards the press building on Ken Auletta’s and Dana Milbank’s earlier work and incorporating the context provided by the Rove/Plame affair.

Jay Rosen has been on fire lately with his excellent Pressthink weblog. Yesterday’s post - PressThink: A Western Civ Course in What’s Gone Wrong With the Press - is but one example of must-read blogging from Rosen.

has posted his PressThink: Closing Thoughts on the Resignation of Eason Jordan which touches on a lot of the issues. He also refers to the transcript of the segment on the affair from last night’s Lehrer News Hour. Though I think Rosen is right on, it still seems lost in this that blogs didn’t cause Jordan’s resignation. If the powers that be at CNN choose not to recnognize the distinctions that can be drawn between different blogs, it’s unreasonable to suggest that “the blogosphere” at large had anything to do with Jordan’s decision. The blame - if that word applies at all - has to lie solely at CNN’s own feet.

wrote a piece before Bush’s “press conference” last night trying to figure out just what he was doing, and then did a followup after the event. Very interesting stuff. From NYU J-School’s Pressthink: A Prime Time News Conference Before a Special Interest - Make Sense to You?