[MegaSilver]

Say what you will about LewRockwell.com. This piece is SUPERB.

[sauropod]

So.... what's wrong with writing about concrete technology? Good read.

[uncbob]

The military reporters didn’t know the history, the weaponry, the technology, strategy, tactics, or how soldiers work. Almost none had served.

Unfortunately this also describes the majority of their readers

[kdot]

Great! He hits the nail on the head. On-line news is better than printed. Blogs are better than individual news sites. Blogs Win! All of us here know it. As usual, they are slow to get it. I hope I never have to go back to the print copy.

[Gritty]

I just love Fred Reed.

[Capt. Tom]

I don’t wonder why circulation falls. I wonder why it hasn’t fallen more.

Don't worry it will. - tom

[Cicero]

I must say it's just about the first column on LewRockwell.com that I've liked. Chalk it up to Fred Reed, whom I admit I hadn't noticed before reading this.

It's absolutely true, right down the line. For my sins, I've known a number of reporters who worked for the New York Times, and have also met some of their editors. The only one worth a damn was Peter Braestrup who left them and wrote that great book on the Tet Offensive. Most of them are smarmy creeps who think the world begins and ends with their own clever selves. One of them was a decent guy, but he left too.

[irv]

People weary of the usual media because they aren’t very good.

Oh no. They're the best possible and they have awards to prove it! The fact that they give the awards to each other really isn't relevant, is it?

I work at a newspaper and there is so much truth in this column it's astounding.

[TUX]

I say Fred old chap, you are a wonderfully witty writer.

[Dark Wing]

You will find this of interest.

[wayoverontheright]

The reason the alphabet media and the NYT stay commercially viable is that they have carved out their niche among that 30% or so, of our population which craves the leftist bent on their news. This is still a pretty large market. Meanwhile, the rest of us are looking to talk radio, Fox News, the internet, and what few newspapers are willing to give us what we want.

In the end, the left-wing media will still be commercially viable, but smaller than they are now, IMHO.

The coming election in my view will prove the impotence of the old media to sway the vote the way they've done for decades.

[boris]

I had an exchange with a newspaper editor who had "edited" my letter to make it less venomous. I reminded him of H.L Mencken, and the sort of invective he delivered.

"I think I am the only person in this newsroom who knows who Mencken was," he told me.

"I don't doubt it, brother..it shows; believe me, it shows." I replied.

--Boris

[Wright is right!]

" papers have to hire "diverse" newsrooms. This exercises a powerful flattening effect on the news. For practical purposes it is not possible to express opinions, or to cover stories, that offend a sizable group on the floor of the newsroom."

In terms of the fraudcast TV networks, this is called reporting to your peers that you're still on the reservation. The anchors and TV reporters you see on the evening news aren't doing their reporting to YOU, the viewer. They are paying their daily dues to The Organization, signaling that they are still on-board with the Proper Ideology, hoping for even more power, prestige and a promotion. It doesn't matter whether their reporting is full of factual holes - it only matters that they adhere strictly to The Template and the Rigid Media Orthodoxy.

Which is why any report on any of the fraudcast networks on any subject BY any one reporter looks absolutely identical to any other story by any other reporter on any other subject.

It's like the French. As Henry Higgins says in "My Fair Lady," the French don't care what you say, exactly, as long as you PRONOUNCE it properly.

Michael