Rutten to the core
Over the weekend Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten devoted a lame, sloppy column to the defense of the New Republic in the Scott Beauchamp scandal. Blogger Bob Owens, who has doggedly pursued the story on the side of his day job, serves up a devastating sample of Rutten's careless errors. Michael Goldfarb administers the coup de grāce. Referring to the documents posted by Drudge last week that are the ostensible subject of Rutten's column, Goldfarb drily comments: "Apparently [Rutten] did not read the documents." And Rutten is, to repeat, the Los Angeles Times media critic. Is this some kind of a joke?
