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Josh Marshall Crowd Sources Bush

by mtippett | March 22, 2007 at 02:19 pm

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Josh Marshall is one the brightest and most influential bloggers on the net. He is one of the great pioneers. Now he's using his sizable and smart user base to overcome the attempts of the Bush administration to drown reporters in data:

A time-honored Washington practice of trying to extinguish, pre-empt, or redirect news coverage by dumping stacks of previously secret government documents on the press may be in for some changes after a headlong collision with hundreds of liberal Web loggers in the wee hours of yesterday morning.

On Monday night, the Justice Department delivered to Congress more than 3,000 pages of e-mails, memos, and other records about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. The handover came so late that many news organizations had to scramble to try to skim a few headlines from the files before latenight deadlines.