by digby
Glenn does the honors on the egregiously gullible media accounts of the Sony hack. It's well worth your while. The way people reacted to this story proved once again that we've learned absolutely nothing from the past decade of revelations and the need for skepticism.
Meanwhile, check out Billmon's twitter feed on the subject:
Glenn does point out the few who showed skepticism, or at least allowed skeptical voices to be part of the conversation. Chris Hayes stands out in this regard having featured a number of experts and skeptics on his show from the beginning, most recently in this segment from Tuesday.
It was interesting watching the media unquestioningly swallow the idea that North Korea is so sophisticated about the way Hollywood works that they very cleverly made sure that Amy Pascal's embarrassing emails about Angelina Jolie and other major stars were leaked first so that the whole company was scared to death that their personal thoughts and private information was at risk. And then they cleverly timed the whole thing so that everyone in the world was fascinated by the gossip before they revealed their evil intent to destroy the American way of life by denying us the right to see a crappy movie. I don't think any executive in Hollywood would have bought that script. At least not until they checked with their foreign distributors to make sure that their governments had no objections.
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