Journalistic credit
I find it a little unsettling that Salon has been fairly assiduous in taking credit for “discovering” the Bush bulge story.
They had an article on the “isbushwired.com” site on Obtober 8th.
Then, they referred to that article with “Not long after Salon gave birth to the intriguing little campaign story-that-could late last week”
Then, again, today, they had another followup piece, in which they reference the original article with “Since Friday, when Salon first raised questions about the rectangular bulge that was visible under Bush’s suit coat during the presidential debates”.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/transmitter/index.html
Does anyone else think this credit is largely undeserved? Granted, they’ve done some investigation since then, but it’s not like they did the initial analysis, or even came up with the idea.
