[TaxRelief]

It is also time to start writing our own news and editorials. (If we don't need their "reporting", then we will have no concerns about copyright rules.)

[Wolfstar]

There may be no greater service that FReerepublic.com can do for the American people than to continue their mission to expose the MSM's poor journalistic practices (like quoting and enshrining of "unnamed sources"; the use of un-authenticated documents; the poor selection of interviewees; personal relationships between editors and partisan hacks; the backroom cover-up games and the rampant plagiarism of blogs and other reporter's articles). Perhaps they will even bring about the demise of the monopolistic mainstream media altogether.

The above paragraph is so good, I don't quite know how to praise it adequately enough. For far, far too long, most people simply assumed that if something was in print or on a TV news program, it must be true. Worse, most people bought into the notion that journalists were paragons of truth-telling, as though the job of collecting bits of information and weaving it into a story somehow put journalists above the human failings to which the rest of us are subject.

Throughout much of my activism here on FR I have tried to debunk this myth of journalistic purity. It pleases me no end to see FR become so instrumental in tearing back the curtain to expose the truth about the "Wizard of Oz" that is the so-called mainstream media.

[DuncanWaring]

...fierce, warlike tribe...

[Future Useless Eater]

A GIANT red flag should always be ... when the MSM is quoting a DEAD GUY...

He can't disagree with their reporting

[Lancey Howard]

Wow. BUMP for Free Republic.
Bookmarked.

[P8riot]

I love the article, but I must've missed something. What is the source?

[TASMANIANRED]

Very well thought out and composed article.

Considering the shoe string Thomas Paine started out with, Freedom of the Press now applies most truely to the pajama brigade.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Great article. The MSM is dying and they knoe it but are too arrogant to acknowledge why.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

Outstanding! Thanks for the Ping, Misty.

(Changing tag line)

[Baseballguy]

I have to say I was here when FR reported directly from the Twin Towers on 9/11. That was of course before the web went down.

[45Auto]

"For forty years, the MSM had misused the concept of "tolerance" to cover-up its inadequacy, its laziness and the many, many errors made in haste, all because of a desire to get credit for "breaking the story".

That is too kind of an assessment; the truth is the MSM has deliberately disseminated false information for decades in an attempt (often successful) to control the political dialog. The alphabet news agencies are no longer staffed by 'objective' journalists (in the Edward R. Murrow tradition) but by those who are operatives of the DNC. The 'press', by and large, has become merely 'the media', the propaganda arm of the DNC.

[King Prout]

excellent.
I have a few recommendations to anyone faced with being interviewed by the MSM:

1. refuse to do any interview in "face to face" setting - it is too easy for the media to splice such an interview. Make it a demand that the interview be conducted in a collegial side-by-side setting, with both reporter and interview subject in the frame at all times. As a side note: do not allow use of multiple cameras, or or a camera capable of in-session panning.

2. ALWAYS MAKE YOUR OWN VIDEOTAPE OF THE INTERVIEW, AND LET 'EM KNOW YOU ARE DOING SO.

3. Make a list of confirmed, documented, dated instances of that reporter's failures in integrity (fraud, plagiarism, slick disingenuous editing, etc...) and have that list ready to hand in case the reporter decides to go into attack mode. Remember: The best defense is to gut your opponent.

4. Do not EVER lie, fabricate, or hedge. If you don't know, say so. If you cannot be certain, say so. Never put your reputation at risk by offering conjecture or opinion as fact.

[TexasCajun]

I wonder how many welcome newbies we've(Jim) had this month?

[The Drowning Witch]

"A New Era Of Credibility"

I like the sound of that. Very well said. Something along the line of your post has been ka-noodling around in my own melon since this See-BS thingie blew up. Something like "Post-establishment Truth", or "New Truth Constructionist".

Or some other hoity-toity catch-phrase. Again, well said.

[timestax]

The FreeRepublic "BLOB" sees all, so watch your P's and Q's !

[Rocky]

Great piece. You not only captured where we have been, but charted a course for the future. It will be interesting to see what develops.

[ThePythonicCow]

bttt

[JLO]

Here's a comparison piece that talks about DU! They think they know what's up. This article was posted 2 hours ago (found via Google news). Way after the truth was posted here at FR. LOL!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091804X.shtml

"Author's note: The manner in which this story came to light is a lesson in modern journalism. The mainstream fellows simply reported the Parlock perspective, but it was an intrepid band of online newshounds - bloggers Rising Hegemon and Atrios, who picked up on the work of one Rezmutt, member of the forums at DemocraticUnderground.com - who pieced together the strange coincidences surrounding these Parlock incidents. Once upon a time, stories like this would get missed. The internet has created a whole new phenomenon. If the mainstream media wants to avoid being embarrassed, they might want to think about paying attention to this brave new world of investigative journalism."

[knak]

not willing to just "sit back and take it" anymore.

Heck yeah! That's right! Great article.

[philman_36]

It is also time to start writing our own news and editorials.
My random thoughts/rant and Fedora's excellent preliminary investigation, which he'd already started on.
Just something you might find interesting enough to follow up/work with him on.

[southland]

ping