More blowback on the "60 Minutes" Rove story

I dropped by Romenesko to see if he had weighed in on the recent issues such as the New York Times' McCain story. Turned out he had news on the "60 Minutes" story about Rove's covert operations team.

A Press-Register editorial blasts the CBS show's "clumsy attempt to portray former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman as the victim of a Karl Rove-led conspiracy" and says "it was perversely fitting that '60 Minutes' fired a wild shot at Mr. Rove just a few days after The New York Times tried to out-tabloid the tabloids with a story suggesting a romantic link between Republican presidential candidate John McCain and an attractive blonde lobbyist."
(Romenesko)

Here's the conclusion of the editorial. Click the link at the end to read the whole thing.

Mr. Siegelman will not be exonerated by a politicized campaign in the press to convict Karl Rove of pulling the strings of dozens of puppets, including career prosecutors and other court officials. This sort of conspiracy-mongering hurts the reputation of journalists much more than it hurts Mr. Rove or helps former Gov. Siegelman.
(Mobile Press-Register)

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