Posted on 09/15/2004 8:03:13 AM PDT by Pikamax
i think blogging has restarted somthing that helped us during the founding of our nation. it is helping returing the nation back to us, the average person.
it is allowing the "average" person a way to be heard and for discussion of ideas the way "pamphlets" did.
it is for that very reason i believe that the left wing and the MSM will try to shut the internet down.
It is about time the common man actually has a voice in what happens in the news and therefore maybe there will be more accountability when using our First Amendment Rights instead of abusing them for personal gain.
This arrogant pr*ck, if I read this right, feels we, the ignorant unwashed, need him and his lackeys to make sure that we get the information he deems fit for us to have.
I reported on a FReep of Kerry when he came to Cocoa Beach for a "townhall" meeting. I reported second-hand information that Kerry flipped off one of the SBVfT that was at our little welcome reception. I was very quickly corrected in the discussion that lack of proof equaled lack of occurrence. I took umbrage at the correction but in retrospect, it was a valuable lesson to this cub reporter. My mistake was to take it personal and when I expressed that, I received the tender benefit of instant correction. :)
Perhaps this is the exception that proves the rule. The Internet is the premier caveat emptor zone and the information can sometimes be worth the price you pay (that's zero to the folks in Rio Linda or the MSM). But the Internet sites now have a track record just as does the MSM. The advantage the Internet holds over the MSM is that the thought process is laid out right in front of you and agendas are easy to spot and discount. You can judge the editorial slant of Free Republic very easily. Our founder makes no bones about it in his wonderful mission statement. The problem is that the Main Stream Media is not so open and honest about their mission statement - and it shows.
"It lends itself to a lot of manipulation," said James O'Shea, managing editor of the Chicago Tribune. "You can have information anarchy. You have to look at who these people are. We have to put some scrutiny on the bloggers."
Who these people are?? We are lawyers, doctors, moms, engineers, admin assistants, and more. We are the public...
Or the cast of "Breakfast Club II"
Are the critics of blogs condemning their own material or just the ability the rest of us out here have to take shots at the MSM when they are so obviously biased or incorrect.
That's funny. I thought he had a reputation as a distinguished loon-bag.
Unlike Dan Rather.
"Added [Phil] Bronstein, "blogging is the current hot thing and there may be something else in six months. It may be just a passing phase."
I hate to inform the ex-Mr. Sharon Stone that newspapers are the passing phase, not blogs.
And there's another scandal - the faked circulation numbers of many U.S. papers.
Pajamarazzi.
I got a way they can start fixing the problem -- Use the editorial page for editorials, and use the news pages to present factual information. If we want a stylized piece of news, we can pick up an entertainment type publication like a news magazine.
I don't want my news filtered so that the 'points are made clear' as some editors like to put it. I want the facts and I'll make the decisions as to what I want to think about it.
For those of you who remember to old Soviet Union -- the difference between the MSM and the blogs is the same as the difference between Pravda/Izvestia and samizdat.
Two ends of a spectrum I wouldnt want to be on!
I prefer being a pajama wearing digital brown shirt, you know a "PAJAMAHIDEEN".
CB^0
What's a newspaper?
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