MORE ON 'COLORING': Tapped is jumping on the anti-"Coloring The News" bandwagon. They call the award-winning book "atrociously bad" and point out what they call an "excellent review" by Seth Mnookin in the "Washington Monthly." However, McGowan issued a stinging rebuttal to Mnookin's review -- virtually the only negative review of the book I've found -- in which he questions Mnookin's ability to check even basic facts:

You gave Mnookin’s review the headline, “Yellow Journalism.” In terms of Mnookin’s dubious sense of honesty and accuracy, you got at least one thing right.

Just go read the whole thing.