Good Choice (Matt Cooper )

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Time Magazine has made Matt Cooper the political editor of Time.com. It’s a great choice. In a world where giant media companies desirous of developing an online presence hire people like ex-sportswriter Jim Brady to spearhead their efforts apparently based on his ability to stand around the water cooler and refer to human resources as "bandwidth," it’s a sign of exceptionally good judgment.

Cooper has been intimately involved in one of the blogosphere’s key dialogs due to his role in l’affair Plame (recall that the Cooper piece that started the whole firestorm, "A War on Wilson," was not written for the magazine itself but appeared online).

In fact Swopa is of the opinion that it was due solely to Cooper that the whole effort to smear Wilson and out Plame went horribly wrong — he thinks Rove just got ahead of himself and blabbed to Cooper and thus the decision was made to "go wide," past trusted operatives like Miller and Novak.

Bill Keller can rail about the world’s unwillingness to join him in "getting past" the Judith Miller incident even as it becomes ever more apparent day by day that her post-incarceration Sunset Boulevard dramaturgy was wholly self-serving and only fragmentally truthful, but it was Matt Cooper who set the gold standard for coming clean about what happened to him and who he spoke with.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/19/good-choice/

A War on Wilson?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,465270,00.html