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They had four writers on this story, and still didn't learn that we aren't "bloggers" at FR. FR is a bulletin board. Bulletin boards not only predated web logs, they predated the web browser, and thus the Internet as we now know it.

The MSM is still playing catch-up. But that's OK, we have no problem with them trailing us.

1 posted on 09/21/2004 4:16:55 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee
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Why can't they get things right? It's dismaying. BTW, did you see the posted piece calling our fellow FReeper Buckbeak? I could not stop laughing.


2 posted on 09/21/2004 4:19:31 PM PDT by Bahbah (Proud member of the pajamahadeen)
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To: L.N. Smithee
In a fair media, the title would be "THE BLOGGERS-HOW TO KNOCK DOWN A FRAUD."
3 posted on 09/21/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by Petronski (What did Max Cleland know and when did he know it?)
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To: L.N. Smithee
as one of his postings claimed, perhaps disingenously: "It wasn't me, it was the swarm."

What the heck is THAT supposed to mean?

4 posted on 09/21/2004 4:20:04 PM PDT by Warren_Piece (Just thinkin' about women and glasses of beer.)
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To: L.N. Smithee

I'm not a blogger, I'm a pajama person!


5 posted on 09/21/2004 4:21:03 PM PDT by Godzilla (9/11 - Never Forget, Never Forgive)
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" FR is a bulletin board. Bulletin boards not only predated web logs, they predated the web browser, and thus the Internet as we now know it."

We're older than dirt.

Older than Kaypro.

7 posted on 09/21/2004 4:21:49 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Thanks for posting this. I particularly like the term: "online avenger Buckhead."


10 posted on 09/21/2004 4:23:16 PM PDT by mass55th (It's the superscript, stupid!!!!)
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To: L.N. Smithee

I love the title Time chose to use on its cover: "Who owns the truth." How old media of them. Certainly CBSNBCABC, Time, Newsweek, and newspapers from New York to L.A. don't own the truth.


15 posted on 09/21/2004 4:26:25 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Silence in the face of atrocity is complicity. Vote GWB 11/2/04 for 9/11/01 & the Russian kids.)
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Sounds to me like Time Rag is a tad pissed off.
(Well, better to be pissed off than pissed on. lol)
16 posted on 09/21/2004 4:26:53 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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"... Atlanta with a history of pugnacious activism..."

Only conservatives have the adjective "pugnacious" applied to them. You never see liberals described this way anywhere in the MSM (Marxist Stream Media).

18 posted on 09/21/2004 4:27:28 PM PDT by StormEye
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all your truth are belong to us!


23 posted on 09/21/2004 4:29:16 PM PDT by EaglesUpForever
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... like a pack of hounds behind the butcher shop...

Well, that's where the red meat is. And the MSM dish out so much offal.

24 posted on 09/21/2004 4:29:46 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: L.N. Smithee

With the exception of the bloggers comment the article is written rather fairly especially for a "Time" article.


28 posted on 09/21/2004 4:30:54 PM PDT by Tempest (Don't blame me, I'm voting for Bush.)
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To: doug from upland

How about an "On the Cover of Rolling Stone" tribute for our dear FRiend Buckhead?


34 posted on 09/21/2004 4:33:10 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (You never know what you'll get when you troll through a newsroom with a phony document.)
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Here you go, "Time"®


35 posted on 09/21/2004 4:34:11 PM PDT by AndrewC (I also think that Carthage should be destroyed. - Cato)
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To: Jim Robinson

Ping...


38 posted on 09/21/2004 4:35:03 PM PDT by tubebender (If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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Nobody really knew just how hugh this would become... downright series!!!


48 posted on 09/21/2004 4:41:22 PM PDT by OKC Patriot
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The online story has a link to FR... expect more new FR signups from this story (and no doubt more PO'd RATS, too).

:-)

50 posted on 09/21/2004 4:42:15 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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Notice in the article a parenthetical aside stating that the superscript assertion has been disproven. I disagree. I have not seen an adequate explanation which shows that the superscript, as shown in the forged documents, could have come from a 1970s era typewriter. One of President Bush's documents has something akin to a superscript (a small "th" next to a number) but this so-called superscript was shown not to be a superscript at all, because it was not set higher than the preceding text (as the superscripts in the forged documents are), and in fact, was set at the same level as the preceding text (just smaller in size). If I weren't a news junkie, I would have read over that parenthetical statement and would have spent the rest of my days thinking that some of the arguments against the authenticity of the documents were false.
53 posted on 09/21/2004 4:44:15 PM PDT by Galena Nevada
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"...koff... koff... oh... the stench... but... must... get new...
koff.. DNC memo... koff... to CBS to... ugh... throw...
koff... suspicion onto... Republicans..."


60 posted on 09/21/2004 4:50:03 PM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty)
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"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.

Time is an old toilet rag with free shower radio as a gift.

Had this not come from FR this would not have been history in the Culture War.

68 posted on 09/21/2004 5:10:25 PM PDT by Helms (nu-ance : [French, from Old French, from nuer, to shade, cloud, from nue, cloud, from Vulgar Latin ])
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