Posted on 09/22/2004 5:56:48 AM PDT by 2banana
Edited on 09/22/2004 6:52:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Early morning last Sept. 11, a poster on the conservative Free Republic Web site exulted, "[A]ll of us can say we were there when a few people from Free Republic kicked CBS and Kerry ass."
The John Kerry part may or may not come to pass, but there is little doubt that a few people using their computers certainly gave CBS News and anchor Dan Rather a beating. Right-wing blogs and forums such as Power Line, Little Green Footballs, and Free Republic were the first to question the authenticity of four memos released by CBS News, purportedly written by Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, who supervised George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard unit in the early 1970s. The memos were part of a 60 Minutes story reported by Rather, questioning President Bush's fulfillment of his Guard service. The buzz created by the blogs became deafening, and the story moved like lightning onto the Drudge Report, and from there to talk radio, cable news and newspapers' front pages - and it's not over yet. On Monday, CBS said it could not prove that the memos were authentic and that it should not have used them. Bloggers cheered that the new-media David had slain the old-media Goliath.
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All hail the pajamarazzi!
It's because people like Ben Wasserstein, who call themselves reporters, are not reporters, they are opinion traders. They masquerade as reporters, and fool people into thinking they have done their job as a reporter, and what they say is true, based on fact and discovery.
Just from reading Wassersteins article, someone might think the Swiftboat Veterans allegations have ben debunked.
If that were true, Kerry and the DNC would be all over them for their ads, dragging them into court for slandering the Slime-balls name. They haven't because they can't. It's truth. If Kerry tried to sue O'Neil, (and O'Neil has dared Kerry to do so) O'Neil would then have the right to access Kerry's records.
If reporters like Wasserstein were not partisan, they would also ask the question which Kerry so obviously brings to light; Why won't he open his records and "debunk" these charges?
LoL...
They report. We decide.
Am I the only one who's getting annoyed by being called a blogger in the blogosphere?
No insult to bloggers intended, but FreeRepublic isn't a "blog" and Freepers aren't necessarily "bloggers" (some may be, but not every one of us.)
Yeah, it's a somewhat trivial gripe, but I wish the lamestream media would get it right instead of chanting the same buzzword mantra of the moment.
I suspected that to be the case but thought maybe I had missed a story or two.
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