Wednesday, January 05, 2005 Letter to Romenesko Many critics of my article on the CBS memos, the blogs, and the press have obviously not read it. They see it as a "defense of fraudulent reporting" (per James Taranto’s headline in the "Best of the Web" column on OpinionJournal), which it certainly is not, or as CJR’s knee-jerk defense of the old media, which it is not. Jonathan Last in the Weekly Standard provides an honest critique of my piece. But when he complains that I construct an "insurmountable" standard of proof, I must disagree. Last writes, as others have, that...