Shirley Sherrod was slimed in an incident that will surely be mentioned for years by journalism profs and journalists — an event that revealed the flaws of the new media, how it operates, and the mainstream media’s reaction to the new media.
But this is REALLY all about Andrew Breitbart and that mean, old NAACP according to Andrew Breitbart, or so it appears…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.