Not that Michael Skube’s silly Los Angeles Times column needs any further blog-flogging (go nuts if you’re interested), but here’s an interesting story on Boeing’s 787 from The Seattle Times that provides a bit more evidence of just how dumb it was.

Regular readers will know that I’m a bit of an aviation junkie, which means that I follow Boeing and Airbus news pretty closely in everything from traditional news sources to enthusiast message boards. One of the absolute best sources for really, really detailed information on Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner has been Flightblogger. The site is run by Jon Ostrower, who says he is a 23-year-old Boston resident with no connection to Boeing’s commercial aviation operation in Everett, Washington, nor the aerospace field in general.

Anyway, my point is that this short 787 update in today’s Seattle Times appears to be based largely on this Flightblogger post that went up Monday. Nothing wrong with that. This isn’t the first occasion that the Seattle dailies’ Boeing beat writers have demonstrated they’re paying attention to the online aviation world. Flightblogger’s updates on the 787 program have been pretty much spot on, and this isn’t the first time the site has been mentioned in mainstream 787 news. Would Skube call Flightblogger journalism? Probably not. But, like the bloggers he criticized, he’s probably too consumed with “unbecoming hatred of enemies real and imagined” to bother checking it out.