Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar

Editor and Publisher ^ | 09/15/04 | Joe Strupp

[Cyber Ninja]

It is now called fish-wrap.

CB^)

[leprechaun9]

"You have people who are politically aligned raising questions about our standards, ..."

That would be a waste of time. The standards of the media in general and the New York Slimes in particular were put into open view with the practices of the NY Slimes poster journalist, JAYSON BLAIR!

[McGavin999]

O'Shea said, "I write for our readers, not the bloggers."

Who does this dork think his readers are? We're on the web to get information because the MSM has failed to produce the information we need. We have to read 3 to 4 times as much in order to get a balanced view of the news.

We've turned away from reading the paper over morning coffee because the news is slanted, and even worse, it's poorly written. Spelling and grammar are rarely checked, and the writing is mostly equivalent to sophomore high school level. Newspapers used to employ word smiths, now they hire hacks.

[an amused spectator]

"There are too many places for people to get information," O'Shea said. "I don't think newspapers can be the gatekeepers anymore -- to say this is wrong and we will ignore it. Now we have to say this is wrong, and here is why."

'For example,' O'Shea went on, 'We examined the papers provided by the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth and discovered that there were incongruities in the 70s-era documents they provided us. For instance, there were raised superscripts and apostrophes with tails - things that typewriters from back then had a hard time doing. The Swifties are LIARS, LIARS, FRAUDS & FORGERS, I TELL YOU!!! AND REPUBLICANS, TOO!!!!' **drool, spit, drool, slaver**

nudge, hey, Jimmy - that was Dan Rather's documents, eh

O'Shea: 'Never mind.'

[Mo1]

Report the truth and you'll have nothing to worry about

[Mo1]

BTTT

[webheart]

Pajamahideen was good.... Pajamarazzi is really good.