Journalists love to blame Twitter.
Check out a memo from my former Allbritton Communications colleagues, John Harris and Jim VandeHei, top bosses at Politico, reported yesterday by the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple. Erik had reported earlier on the stupid tweets by Politico’s Dave Catanese, trying to defend Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, whose remark about rape was universally viewed as idiotic.
The subject line of Harris’ and VandeHei’s memo to the Politico staff was “Twitter.” Here’s what they said: (more…)