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TIME MAG: 'THE BLOGGERS-HOW TO KNOCK DOWN A STORY' (Print Version Includes Buckhead Pic)
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| "Posted September 27, 2004"
| Joshua Macht, et al
Posted on 09/21/2004 4:16:55 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee
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To: LS
I just finished writing a history of journalism and media biasHope it's online so we can all read it. BTW, was there a press bloodhound hunt to find out who "Silence Dogood" was?
GO FLYERS!
81
posted on
09/21/2004 5:29:53 PM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(The Final Score: Buckhead 1, Talking Head 0)
To: billorites
Vicious partisans both of them.
This guy, too.
82
posted on
09/21/2004 5:31:41 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(Wearing BLACK Pajamas, in honor of Hanoi John)
To: L.N. Smithee
83
posted on
09/21/2004 5:33:51 PM PDT
by
LS
To: L.N. Smithee
Among the assertions: 1970s-era typewriters couldn't have produced the superscript th that appears in the memos (this was later disproved) Later disproved?
We have all seen the difference between the two th's.
Why doesn't the story state the the only typewriter in 1972 that had purportional fonts and a th cost $3000!
Keep in mind that this is 1972.
$3000 could buy a brand new Oldsmobile sedan! How many National Guard Units bought a typewriter that cost more than a car?
To: bannie
Shame on you: You're gonna' offend blind people when they see that. Especially the blind Amish lurkers.
85
posted on
09/21/2004 5:36:18 PM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(The Final Score: Buckhead 1, Talking Head 0)
To: Warren_Piece; L.N. Smithee; tophat9000
When I started coding, we only had 1's and 0's. Sometimes the boss wouldn't even fund the 1's.
86
posted on
09/21/2004 5:36:43 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(Wearing BLACK Pajamas, in honor of Hanoi John)
To: L.N. Smithee
Buckhead bump!
I guess they can't figure out what to call us...BBS'ers instead of bloggers? Course, they are still probably thinking AOL is the internet...LOL!
(Insert 14.4 kbps dial-up noise)
87
posted on
09/21/2004 5:38:52 PM PDT
by
NetSurfer
(Proud member of the Pajama-Wearing Lunatic Fringe)
To: L.N. Smithee
How was Buckhead identified and by whom?
88
posted on
09/21/2004 5:39:39 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(The internet is the newspaper of record.)
To: L.N. Smithee
Among the assertions: 1970s-era typewriters couldn't have produced the superscript th that appears in the memos (this was later disproved). Let's say "Hi. TIME" We know your watching.
Its high time that TIME stop reporting so "disingenously", and present complete forgery as such, and not as a partially possibly genuine forgery "proved" less than absolutely implausible.
"To the trWth...with a Capitol W."
89
posted on
09/21/2004 5:41:59 PM PDT
by
vessel
(How long has your candle been burning? Only you and the light know for sure.)
To: billorites
I wrote a lot of papers in Wordstar when working my MDiv.
90
posted on
09/21/2004 5:42:20 PM PDT
by
arjay
(If the NYT is against it, it must be good for America.)
To: NetSurfer
I guess they can't figure out what to call us...BBS'ers instead of bloggers? I think that from this point forward, Rather should be referred to as a "BBS'er" (the first "B" is for "Big").
91
posted on
09/21/2004 5:54:38 PM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(The Final Score: Buckhead 1, Talking Head 0)
To: billorites
Ah - Kaypro - my first machine.
That really dates us.
92
posted on
09/21/2004 5:57:08 PM PDT
by
Let's Roll
(For a guy who shirks his own job, Kerry sure is eager to tell others what they should do ...)
To: Savage Beast
How was Buckhead identified and by whom? The L.A. Times reviewed his posts over the past couple of years, gleaned his self-description, his work, and trivial info, and pieced it together. He also served as one of the legal team defending FR from destruction through the Times' and Washington Post's joint copyright infringment suit against Jim Robinson, so the LAT rats' lawyers may have been familiar with him.
93
posted on
09/21/2004 5:59:26 PM PDT
by
L.N. Smithee
(The Final Score: Buckhead 1, Talking Head 0)
To: tophat9000
I preferred Caverns Played on a WANG 2200
94
posted on
09/21/2004 6:01:39 PM PDT
by
Woodman
("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
To: Woodman
WANG 2200LOL! I remember in 11th grade in 1981 we had 6 or 7 "networked" TRS-80s , and ONE WANG 2200 (I very explicitly remember it having a green screen). That was my baby! That's where I played the text-based Star Trek game! Such memories!
95
posted on
09/21/2004 6:09:34 PM PDT
by
Warren_Piece
(Just thinkin' about women and glasses of beer.)
To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
I was going to say something about gerbils, but thought better of it.
96
posted on
09/21/2004 6:42:45 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
To: Warren_Piece
We used to "chat" on a green screen...with a blinking, blinking, blinking cursor.
97
posted on
09/21/2004 6:47:40 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Jamma Nana!)
To: bannie
We used to "chat" on a green screen...with a blinking, blinking, blinking cursor. Actually mine was amber. And they used call it a BBS. Used to be a SYSOP.
98
posted on
09/21/2004 6:51:23 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(your mileage may vary)
To: AFreeBird
My snn was a SYSOP too...I'm pretty sure our screen was green.
However, most sadly, there was no FreeRepublic. :)
99
posted on
09/21/2004 6:53:29 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Jamma Nana!)
To: L.N. Smithee
The comments were penned by someone known online as Buckhead. And they might have languished had it not been for powerlineblog.com, a well-trafficked right-wing website that linked to Buckhead's claims. The rumblings filtered up to Matt Drudge, who linked to Power Line, setting off a surge of publicity. So Time is saying the old media, which includes Time, would not have picked up on it?
It's a revealing comment.
100
posted on
09/21/2004 7:36:02 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Dan Rather, the most busted man in America)
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