Wow

The Los Angeles Times has a great piece on Reutergate by media critic Tim Rutten here. (Login via BugMeNot = yuggins@yahoo.com, password = yuggins) The column ends thusly:

That brings us to the most troubling of the possible explanations for these fraudulent photos, which is that some of the photojournalists involved are either intimidated by or sympathetic to the Hezbollah terrorists. It's a possibility fraught with harsh implications, but it needs to be examined thoroughly and openly.

Johnson and his colleagues have done the serious news media a service. Failure to follow up on it would be worse than churlish; it would be irresponsible.

He's talking about Charles Johnson of little green footballs, who broke the story. Read the whole thing, and be surprised.