Well, that isn't exactly what he said -- but it is what NY Times columnist David Carr's comment in a CNN article really boils down to.

"I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed," Carr said.

"Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone."

And since the NY Times -- according to their own public editor -- didn't even deign to seriously investigate the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story despite the easy availability of corroboration, it clearly wasn't news.

Except for those damn bloggers who kept pushing the issue after the elitist liberal media declared the affair/love child to be non-news. They kept up the pressure until it became news.

Call it the democratization of reporting -- something that Carr and the rest of the elitist liberal media seem to be lamenting today.

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