TruthOut: The Rove Indictment Story as of Right Now. The time has now come, however, to issue a partial apology to our readership for this story. While we paid very careful attention to the sourcing on this story, we erred in getting too far out in front of the news-cycle.
This kind of thing should make journalists of all stripes, online and traditional, cringe. TruthOut stated, without the slightest hedging, that Karl Rove had been indicted, citing a variety of unnamed sources. Now it’s sort of, kind of, backing off the story. See this deconstruction of the TruthOut semi-retraction by Salon’s Tim Grieve for details on the journalistic perversity involved.