Antidote, huh?

Hugh:

I pointed out to the audience that the Newsweek meltdown again underscores the value of the medium in that the blogs are relentlessly pushing the story of Newsweek’s screw-up which is the only antidote to the damage done. It isn’t a perfect antidote by any means --not even close. But at least new media is putting the truth out there so that any fair-minded observer will know that Newsweek had no basis for reporting the story that has caused so much havoc.

Wait, what? Blogs are the "only antidote" to what Newsweek did? What the hell does that mean, and how in the world does it work? They are an antidote to a sourced story which was looked over by a government official and not denied? An antidote, perhaps, to the same official then changing his story to announce the whole Koran flushing incident may simply appear in another document? An antidote to Newsweek willing to print their own correction, something I would have thought would be loved by Hugh's so called "self correcting blogosphere."

And who's pushing the story? Who's responsible for the Newsweek "retraction"? Oh yeah, Newsweek. They decided to come out on their own and issue a statement, didn't they, which was then picked up by the media while the right blogs jumped on board. It seems this story would've carried on just fine without Hugh's "new media." The only thing it's managed to do is take credit for something it does not deserve