Who Polices The Press?

Glenn Greenwald @ Salon body slams the Rosen piece and the ensuing MSM meme regarding Sotomayor. It's worth a complete read. Jeffrey Rosen, TNR and the anonymous smears against Sonia Sotomayor The sum of journalism in American today:

Sotomayor's decades of achievement in the face of overwhelming obstacles just gets dismissed with a few slothful, totally irresponsible smears from Rosen and his invisible friends. But that's how "journalism" so often works -- people are allowed to remain hidden while their views and assertions are uncritically amplified in the loudest venues and bestowed with an authoritative veneer that they absolutely do not merit.

His follow-ups on the subject are equally stomach wrenching. Turns out Rosen's so called anonymous source may have been his brother-in-law Neil Katyal who stand to benefit greatly by knocking Sotomayor out of the running. What the reputation of one Latina when getting ahead in the world is at stake huh Jeff?

Jeffrey Rosen's brother-in-law is Neal Katyal, the current Deputy Solicitor General in the Obama administration. If Sotomayor's prospects are torpedoed, that could clear the way for one of the other leading candidates to be named to the Court: current Solicitor General Elena Kagan. The selection of Kagan (rather than Sotomayor) would almost certainly result in Rosen's brother-in-law (Katyal) becoming Solicitor General.