Media Mythbusters Blog

Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:

I’m tickled that Charles Hurt of the New York Post picked up and ran with the ball on this story, which now seems to have generated a surprising (to me) degree of interest. In addition to Hurt’s article, Brent Bozell got to talk about it on Fox News Live, and I caught the tail-end of it being discussed on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show briefly yesterday.

ABC’s Jake Tapper, who first reported what Moveon.org paid for their ad, is on the story again today and reveals that a conservative organization who ran a full page ad the next day paid “significantly more.”

Oops.

It appears that the NY Times may take a much bigger hit to their the credibilty and the bottom line than they ever anticipated as a result.

I doubt stockholders will be pleased.

(h/t Allah at Hot Air, who kindly remembers where this conflagration over the deep discount started.)

Update: Thanks.

Update: This is growing far more than I could have ever expected. Fred! and Rudy pile on. and Hot Air has the audio and video. Uncle Jimbo has filed a complaint with the FEC, and though I won’t pretend to have the first clue on whether or not this has any “bite,” a commenter over at Ace’s place discovers something that looks like where they could have potentially run afoul of the law.