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Open Source Media

I wrote yesterday about how Pajamas Media was launching today. Meet Open Source Media. The "Pajamas" reference comes from the President of CNN saying:

"These bloggers have no checks and balances... You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at 60 Minutes] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing."

The initial flap at CNN was over Rather's insistence that the Texas Air National Guard memo about Bush was authentic. Someone (I don't have the name to hand) alerted Charles Johnson, one of the founders of Pajamas Media to some typographic discrepancies. Charles typed the text of the Memo into Microsoft Word on MAC OS X using the out-of-the-box default settings for Word. He then overlaid this with the image of the memo that CNN published on their website. Here is the animation: Hey MSM! Wake up and smell the cappuccino! This will be fun to see... Posted by DaveH at November 16, 2005 4:15 PM