Roger L Simon...fiction writer, not reporter. We have all been roasting the MSM for several years for using unnamed secret sources before launching on their crusades. Simon is worse than any of them. Try these on:

1. "information from sources close to the investigation:" this non sourcing is used throughout as he lays out charge after charge.

2. His "sources tell" him that: "This report may reveal....." talk about bullshit. He couldn't get a job at the local high school paper with stuff like that.

3. After "MAY reveal" he follows up with this series of statements: startling information(?) tending to indicate [tending to indicate???] Secretary General Kofi Annan had more knowledge of, or was closer to, his son Kojo's activities with Cotecna - the company whose role in the scandal seems so pervasive - than previously thought (what the hell does that say??).

Claudia Rosett wouldn't touch this piece of crap with a ten foot garbage removal pole. Just another Hollywood hustler looking to crack the big time reporting game, and failing. But even better, he is trying to pull Claudia Rosett into it as if she was a co-writer. Read Rosett's stuff. Would she be caught dead with the above sourcing.

Very few of us actually get a story unless it drops in our lap because we happen to have expertise in a certain area and recognize a falsehood or a truth. Realistically, I have no idea what is happening across the street right now; in order to "report" something I'd have to get off my ass and go over there to snoop around. Simon may get a Hollywood story, Kudlow can absolutely get some financial stories, Kaus is actually a reporter and so on. For Reynolds, or anyone for that matter, to assert that Simon broke a story is absurd on its face, but too many of us on the web are getting way too blown up with self importance. Get your actual news off TV, they beat all the wire services. All we can do is offer our takes on various news pieces, or direct you to try something on another site.

BTW: Blogger is the worst service I've ever used. Short Google stock. If you own it, tighten up your stops. No company run this badly can continue to have good things happen. I think Google may be bailing on Blogger and hustling all of us out the door with bad service. link