Tuesday Crib Sheet: Dossiers on Journalists, Politico Reporter Worked for Soros Group

– Creepy. New website builds dossiers on journalists:

Ira Stoll is 38. He has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. His phone number is (718) 499-2199 and his email is ira@futureofcapitalism.com. He went to college at Harvard, has worked at the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and New York Sun, and he considers Seth Lipsky a personal friend.

I know all this from Stoll’s profile page on NewsTransparency.com, a new site he just launched to make it easier for the public “to find out about the individual human beings who produce the news — human beings with opinions, relationships, history, and agendas.”

– Anonymous threatens the Zeta Drug Cartel, but will that make it more dangerous for Mexican bloggers to write about the drug war?

– Politico’s Ken “We don’t want to get into details” Vogel used to work for a George Soros group. Explains so much.

– FLASHBACK: Romney adviser to 2008 campaign behind fake Fred Thompson smear site.

– More on the Romney strategy of avoiding national media:

“In 2008, Mitt Romney was new to the national stage and not very well-known outside of Massachusetts,” spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said in an email to The Huffington Post. “There was an obvious benefit to doing a lot of earned media because it helped raise his profile, and we wanted to increase name awareness and recognition. The downside was that we often found ourselves at the mercy of the daily news cycle and answering questions about whatever happened to be in the headlines that day. One of the things we learned from that experience is that we had to do a better job of getting his message across in media interviews.”

This cycle, Fehrnstrom said, the campaign is “generally more careful about when and where we put him out to do interviews.”

– Chris Wallace calls him out.

– When is a scoop ready to be published?

Sexual harassment is a potent charge. It has brought down CEOs, congressmen and senators, and very nearly pushed Bill Clinton out of the presidency. But in this case, it remains unclear whether this was merely a great tip or an actual bombshell. I respect Politico’s decision to keep the names of the women out of this, although they will surely emerge. Yet, the basic details of this “harassment” are essential so readers can judge its significance.

Sounds like Politico ran with a quarter of the story; not ready for prime time.