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MEDIA: Bloggers' 'Moment' Doesn't Make for a Revolution
Los Angeles Times ^ | Ben Wasserstein is a writer in New York.

Posted on 09/19/2004 5:42:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife
You can sense the LATIMES fear! IS THAT LA TIMES BLOOD I SMELL?
21 posted on 09/19/2004 6:01:10 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"But Malkin and other bloggers are getting ahead of themselves by asserting that the CBS disputed memos represent the death knell for traditional journalism."

Note to LA Times:

Not so fast.

That isn't the assertion at all.

Try ... It's the constant and unfailing attempt to taint the news by the "main stream media", [MSM] such as yourself, that has punched holes in your overbloated vessel.

I dare say you, and others of your ilk, have neither the intelligence, nor the bilge pumps, to keep afloat for the long journey ahead.

You have the Captains permission to leave the bridge.

22 posted on 09/19/2004 6:01:11 AM PDT by G.Mason (A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
the charges were not adequately debunked until newspapers like the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune ..published eyewitness testimonials. Old-fashioned reporting won that round.

The Swift Boats charges were not debunked, IMO, just clouded up a tinge on the fringes. They flatter themselves; Kerry's drop in the polls would have been temporary if that wasnt true, and it wasnt

Those libs havent seen anything yet.

23 posted on 09/19/2004 6:04:22 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This revolution has been and is being televised, despite the usual pathetic attempt at media blackout.


24 posted on 09/19/2004 6:04:23 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("With 64 days left, John Kerry still has time to change his mind 4 or 5 more times" - Rudy Giuliani)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The bloggers have a distinct advantage over the MSM that SeeBS and the like just can't surpass; we've got THOUSANDS of ears, eyes and minds all across the USA that can cross-check allegations and rumors in mere minutes.

Freepers are educated, well-read and observant. Most of all, we CARE about what happens to our country because it will eventually affect our lives and communities, as in the case of homosexual "marriage." We've got resources from coast to coast that fan out the instant a possibly (or probably) bogus story surfaces, and we're leaving the MSM to eat dust.

25 posted on 09/19/2004 6:05:40 AM PDT by Kieri (Who's waiting for the return of her beloved Farscape!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
By Ben Wasserstein, Ben Wasserstein is a writer in New York.

Ok, I'll be the 1st to say it - Ben Wasserstein is clueless.

The "revolution" is that the MSM can no longer get away with spewing dubious 'facts' under the cover of "professional", ahem, "journalists" without consequences.

We are watching, 'WE' are Buckhead!

26 posted on 09/19/2004 6:05:48 AM PDT by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
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To: G.Mason

When you get to the point that words have no meaning, you're probably talking to a MSM journalist.


27 posted on 09/19/2004 6:07:11 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Freepers are Crusader Warriors)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
.....right-wing bloggers have tasted blood — and they like it..... yummmmm
28 posted on 09/19/2004 6:07:44 AM PDT by rface (Ashland, Missouri - monthly donor /bad speller - I am a FReeper not a BLOGGER)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If the internet ever gets around to posting localized sports, obituaries, and help-wanted ads, the big print media will have had its day!


30 posted on 09/19/2004 6:09:09 AM PDT by Bob from De (While GWB was flying TANG F-102s, JFK was under FBI surveillance)
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To: Kieri

And Rathergate gave FR and other blogs, valuable exposure.


31 posted on 09/19/2004 6:10:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ben, Ben, Ben...you are so yesterday.

I'll attribute it to short term memory loss, but don't you recall when Newsweek executives were trying to spike the Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton sex scandal, and it was those of us online who overwhelmed the "old media"?

The curtain of controlled news was torn then. It has now been ripped to shreds.

Ben, you are one of the dinosaurs living in the LA Times swamp, unaware that extinction is looming.


32 posted on 09/19/2004 6:11:45 AM PDT by Rhetorical pi2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

*sob*

We're still relevant.

Really.


33 posted on 09/19/2004 6:16:29 AM PDT by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
THIS is how they "initally felt" about Rush Limbaugh...remember he "wouldn't have a show once Clinton is gone"....

AntiVenom to the LIBERAL MEDIA...

"KEEP doubting US A$$HOLES...we are FED-UP, Armed with modems, Armed with facts, have fancy jammies, AND WE AREN'T GONNA TAKE YOUR CRAP ANYMORE!

HELLLOOOOO Hitlery...we will be BETTER trained with our computers when YOU decide to slither out in 2008...we're merely "practicing to make PERFECT" our next course of action.

34 posted on 09/19/2004 6:18:37 AM PDT by antivenom ("Never argue with an idiot, he'll bring you down to his level - then beat you with experience.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

As long as these people stay in denial we will win and win and win. Let them self delude all they want. The truth is that you can't even begin to solve a problem until you recognize that it exists. Dream on fellas. Dream on.


35 posted on 09/19/2004 6:19:38 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 ( Kerry's not "one of us": catholicsagainstkerry.com. needs your help.)
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To: Desdemona

That would be MR. Buckhead to you!


36 posted on 09/19/2004 6:20:28 AM PDT by southernerwithanattitude (new and improved redneck)
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To: FearlessRightwinger
"Now right-wing bloggers have tasted blood — and they like it."

Being exposed for what they are makes the MSM squirm - doesn't it???

37 posted on 09/19/2004 6:21:07 AM PDT by LADY J
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Concord Hymn

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the rude bridge that arched the flood.
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, are sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heros dare
To die and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.


38 posted on 09/19/2004 6:21:08 AM PDT by Wild_Bill_8881 (If ya can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

"Rather may become the second kill for bloggers"

Typical left wing notion that exposing fraud and seeking truth is akin to a "kill"....sad people


39 posted on 09/19/2004 6:21:24 AM PDT by libwacker
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

LA times - How are those circulation number going? Did you hire a chef?


40 posted on 09/19/2004 6:23:39 AM PDT by listenhillary (We are defending the peace by taking the fight to the enemy.GWB)
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