Come Back, Steve Brill, All is Forgiven!

Matt Welch | January 27, 2005

You might have seen that Max puts the Boot into Seymour Hersh's reporting today. Boot's ledger is decidedly (and understandably) one-sided -- Hersh is given little credit for ever being right about important things, or for being first in being right -- but the exercise recalls the one single useful feature in the otherwise dreary (and conflict-riddled) Brill's Content magazine: The Pundit Scorecard, in which Sabbath Gasbags had their flatulent predictions actually counted up, and ranked. I would love it if there were similar non-partisanish scorecards today for talkshow hosts, sports columnists, bloggers, opinion journalists, investigative reporters ... though as I argued last Arpil, we are far more likely to see such efforts from partisans.