And we went for it.

"I went for it. Treated him like a credible source..."

Ezra Klein and Megan McArdle, rising stars of the new media firmly attached to the old media salaries, admit their journalistic work might be based on biased sources. They both plead, "I didn't know! But if I did, I would have disclosed it..." :

Prominent Voice in Health Care Debate Took Money from the Administration

Expect to see much more amazement at what they didn't know, when selling us a faulty bill of goods. I've nothing against ignorance -- confined ignorance, that doesn't have such a widespread national effect.