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That's politics, however, and what we are dealing with here are journalism and facts. Facts 1 through 13 and all the rest.

But there is another fact in all of this that has at once nothing and everything to do with the Gore case and the Portland Tribune's handling

of it.

At this moment in American history -- for reasons that have as much to do with journalism and politics as technology -- this country is going

through a media revolution. Gone for good is the monopoly once enjoyed by Establishment media. At the national and global level this means

once sturdy institutions such as the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, Time and Newsweek. And at the local level in cities

all over America this includes the newspapers, television and radio stations.

There isn't enough room in this piece to go through all the reasons for this. Is technology responsible for some of the problems faced by

newspapers, for example? Sure.

But suffice to say there are millions of Americans who believe -- and have held this belief for decades -- that there is a vivid double-

standard in what we now call the Old Media. Here's a link to an earlier piece in this space that does go into some detail, for those who are

interested.:

Only this week Andrew Breitbart of Big Journalism.com has offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who would step forward with the archives of a

site called JournoList 400. The site is in the news as a result of some leaked e-mails from then-Washington Post reporter David Weigel.

Charged with covering conservatives, Weigel it turned out had an axe to grind against the very people he was supposedly covering. Assigned to

report facts, his work presented by the paper as that of an impartial journalist, Mr. Weigel was otherwise. As confirmed with e-mails

scorching Rush Limbaugh, various conservatives and conservatism in general and so on. Once he was outed, the Post accepted Weigel's

resignation -- and news is Weigel has just accepted a position at the leftward MSNBC.

What a shocker!

The news with JournoList -- that some 400 liberal journalists conspire regularly behind the scenes to set the mainstream media news narrative

-- is explosive. Breitbart, who played a key role in the ACORN revelations, is no fool in quickly identifying this allegation as the real

issue behind l'affair Weigel and characteristically doing something about it.