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LA TIMES: No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players (FreeRepublic.Com & Buckhead Mentioned!)
The LA Times ^
| Sept. 12, 2004
| Peter Wallsten
Posted on 09/12/2004 2:43:11 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: Buckhead
341
posted on
09/12/2004 1:06:49 PM PDT
by
OregonRancher
(illigitimus non carborundum)
To: shezza; dawn53
We, collectively, were easily more accurate than the "experts" the FRAUDcasters employed during the BASH* ... we had the JFK,jr pinned down as a classic "death spiral" long before the Old Media did, and Limbaugh picked up his monologue FROM the FR post that nailed that ... we KNEW in 2000 that the USSC had told the SCOFLAWs "game over" a half hour before their "court analysts" did (but that is because Coulter was sick in bed that day - she probably would have beat us then) ...
There are just so many of these instances now they are really too great to enumerate, and they occur nearly daily. If the Old Media were interested in the truth, rather than their agenda, the FR "virtual think tank" would have been mentioned a hundred times this year in a hundred stories.
One thing is certain, though, this method of news research is on the ascendancy, and theirs is not.
/
342
posted on
09/12/2004 1:07:42 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: sweetliberty
Bump for later read (of thread)...I read what was posted of article...but will not register at LA Slimes, lol! : )
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
Ah... that is one thing I was going to say, too...
For See BS and the other FRAUDcasters to believe that we don't have checks and balances here simply points out that they have never been part of the turmoil that goes on here --- the very tough arguments and the pseudotrolls and the major fights and even name calling. It may not be recognizable to them as accomplishing the vetting of news, but we typically do get it right in the end, and more quickly than they do.
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344
posted on
09/12/2004 1:11:06 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: nicmarlo
"but will not register at LA Slimes" You don't have to. See post #8.
345
posted on
09/12/2004 1:11:16 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
To: snooker
The bigger the brain, the higher the intelligence...
We have a collective brain that surpasses anything!!!
346
posted on
09/12/2004 1:11:31 PM PDT
by
OregonRancher
(illigitimus non carborundum)
To: Polybius
... On the other hand, on any given topic, be it computer science, typing, aviation, any branch of the military services, medicine, law, engineering, you name it, FreeRepublic can come up with a dozen members who have been working in those fields for decades.
No human being in the world, especially a reporter, is ever going to have a greater breath of knowledge than the FreeRepublic collective.
Resistance is futile.
ROTFLMAO!!! So true! (you forgot a few very important fields: investing, politics, aging, parenting, religion, ... to name a few and often pertinent ones, that often reporters don't have any experience with.)
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347
posted on
09/12/2004 1:16:57 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: West Coast Conservative
348
posted on
09/12/2004 1:18:31 PM PDT
by
petercooper
(All I wanted to know about Islam, I learned on 9-11-01.)
To: AFPhys
OOPS... forgot some don't know:
* BASH == Battle Against Saddumb Hussein
/
349
posted on
09/12/2004 1:23:15 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: sweetliberty
Thanks, sweetliberty.....I hadn't known we were being called "a bastion of right-wing lunacy." Methinks that the "lunatics" were the ones who exposed the fanatical Ratherbiased liars.
To: nicmarlo
I rather enjoy the company in the asylum, don't you?
351
posted on
09/12/2004 1:34:06 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
To: sweetliberty
If I must choose between the Ratherbiased liars and the "lunatics," I'll pick the lunies, any day!!! : )
To: sweetliberty
Sometimes you feel like a nut.........sometimes you don't
To: West Coast Conservative
A few comments:
Jim Jordan said:
"That's not to say the documents didn't deserve examination. But apparently the entire thing was cooked up by a couple of amateurs on Free Republic. The speed with which it moved was breathtaking."
Why is it breathtaking? Anybody who actually used a typewriter back in the day should have noticed right away, from looking at the documents, that they were not in Courier, and that they didn't look like anything composed in 1972. You don't need days to figure that out.
"The mainstream press is having to follow them," said Jeffrey Seglin, a professor at Emerson College in Boston. "The fear I have is: How do you know who's doing the Web logs?
"And what happens when this stuff gets into the mainstream, and it eventually turns out that the '60 Minutes' documents were perfectly legitimate, but because there's been so much reporting about what's being reported, it has already taken on a life of its own?"
Seglin misses the point. The MSM wouldn't have been writing these stories if there weren't real problems with the documents, as mentioned by document experts. The real story here is that it didn't even occur to anybody in the MSM to check out the veracity of the documents until freepers and bloggers noticed all the problems in the doc.
Besides, instead of worrying that our right-wing bias is a bad thing, the media should be worrying that their left-wing bias is not serving them well when it comes to finding the truth. Every MSM outlet ran huge stories about 60 Minutes' report, and not a single one even considered that the documents could be fake until the internet reports. Where's the MSM's skepticism when it comes to anti-Bush charges?
To: kcvl
355
posted on
09/12/2004 1:44:48 PM PDT
by
Friend of thunder
(No sane person wants war, but oppressors want oppression.)
To: leadpenny
Did anyone at the slimes get permission to print this in their 'for profit' publication?Good point, worth pursuing.
Isnt this fun!!!
356
posted on
09/12/2004 1:52:29 PM PDT
by
Friend of thunder
(No sane person wants war, but oppressors want oppression.)
To: squarebarb
Where did those pjs come from? My wife wants some like that...
357
posted on
09/12/2004 1:53:10 PM PDT
by
no-s
To: Howlin
History in the making, thanks and congratulations!
358
posted on
09/12/2004 2:03:20 PM PDT
by
Friend of thunder
(No sane person wants war, but oppressors want oppression.)
To: Howlin
To: West Coast Conservative
The Dog Trainer still warns its readers Free Republic.com LOL - is a website full of right-wing lunatics. We're just kooks, folks. That's what passes for mainstream media thinking of what's happening online. They so do not get it!
360
posted on
09/12/2004 2:38:35 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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