Peter Wehner at Commentary reports on a weird statement by NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd:"There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it," according to NBC's chief White House correspondent, Chuck Todd.Perhaps in the universe inhabited by employees of NBC and MSNBC, that might be true. But Peter points out a few other crimes that may, in fact, be a little more substantial:Not Dan Rather's use of forged documents in a one-sided 60 Minutes hit piece intended to cost President Bush re-election? Not former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair's plagiarizing and fabricating elements of his stories? Not former New Republic reporter Stephen Glass's fabricating articles, quotations, sources, and events?There are, in fact, an endless number of "crimes" in journalism that are worse than deciding something is a story because Matt Drudge links to it.And while we're on this topic: exactly who...(Read Full Post)