Note to members of the MFM.You sucked before; now you suck and could be part of a sucker conspiracy.

One of the fascinating things about the JournoList fiasco is not that the members of the media are assholes.  That was obvious for years.  They are actually bigger assholes when they talk amongst themselves.

The second thing that interested me is that the list was limited ... only about 400 members.  But this was not an elite crew.  It included an obscure staffer for a public radio station in California who wanted to see Rush Limbaugh die in front of her so she could have an orgasm.  So a legitimate question before us is this: until the names of all 400 are published, the jerk who writes or edits your local birdcage liner ... say one of the editors of the Virginian Pilot, could be a JournoList member who also gets his jollies hoping to see Conservatives die.

Here's a lower key analysis via Volokh.

To all you non-JournoLister reporters out there, please be aware that your credibility has just taken a big hit, because we, your faithful readers, don’t actually know who is or who isn’t. You can thank JournoList for that, you can thank Ezra Klein, and you can thank the Washington Post, which has done its outstanding professionals absolutely no favors in any of this.

And you know what?  Denial is not a river in Egypt.