Matt Stoller, of the newly rebranded My Direct Democracy, attended a meeting of a bunch of bloggers and media types to discuss blogging, mainstream journalism, and the interaction of the two. Inevitably the discussion turned towards Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell and the recent dust-up over her false assertion that Jack Ambramoff “directed” money towards Democrats. Despite evidence to the contrary, Howell parroted the right wing talking point that this is a bipartisan scandal. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Go read Matt’s piece as he addresses the problems with modern journalism, hope for citizen driven journalism and blogging, and how this all ties in to the broken Democratic party apparatus.

Stick with us as we try and fix it folks.