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Project Veritas’s incompetent sting targeting the Washington Post shows how little O’Keefe and his ilk know about how real journalists do their jobs

Hope for the Washington Post, while Vietnam cracks down on Twitter

The Washington Post advises American lawmakers to consider a carbon tax.

Friday’s big American media story was the resignation of Washington Post weblogger and conservative-movement specialist Dave Weigel, who came under pressure when gossips obtained some of his tart-tongued and borderline nutty private e-mails to Journolist (a controversial private online club for young liberal media personnel which itself collapsed amidst all the chaos and poo-flinging). By a weird happenstance, Canada’s most remote, reclusive correspondent actually knows Weigel slightly. In February 2008, at the peak of the presidential primary campaigns, I spent a week slouching around the Washington offices of Reason, the libertarian magazine where he then worked.

It’s official. Page one, above the fold in today’s Washington Post:

As a general rule, media ethics debates work best in journalism schools (where they can safely and entirely be discussed in theory). But here we go.