The ongoing drama continues over Joe Klein’s continued laziness and ignorance on doing his job as a reporter. Sadly, what passes for journalism these days consists literally of the following:

 Seriously — this is really it, in its entirety:

In the original version of this story, Joe Klein wrote that the House Democratic version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would allow a court review of individual foreign surveillance targets. Republicans believe the bill can be interpreted that way, but Democrats don’t.

Leave aside the false description of what Klein wrote.

Yes, journalism now is all about reporting what one side says, reporting that as news, and then stating what the other sides says. Therefore, as “some people say” (another favorite line that really means little) if you ever want to know what bad or yellow journalism (essentially) is all about, go read Joe Klein’s articles or get a taste of the journalistic satire at Atrios:

Fresh Thread
According to sources, Rick Stengel has 32 child rape convictions. Stengel has yet to comment on these allegations, and I have neither the time nor legal background to figure out if they are true.

Makes you wonder sometimes why no one has yet sued over such false allegations that really seem go beyond protections enshrined in the First Amendment into accusations that can be disproved.