For four months, Rathergate gestated in the belly of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). Finally, the mountain labored and brought forth a pipsqueak.Corey Pein, a stalwart of that noble guardian of media matters has published a long, (3400 words) tedious, and foolish analysis whose primary point is to absolve CBS and Dan Rather of the blame for publicizing the famous Burkett forgeries last September on 60 Minutes II. Pein signals his disposition in the title of his piece—Blog-Gate. The offence, you see, was the blog world's exposure of the forgeries with astonishing swiftness and transparency. Then, sheeplike, to their shame,...