Freeper pajamarazzi rule!
OLe' Ben just doesn't get it. MSM we are constantly looking over your liberal shoulder!
I think bloggers are now the unofficial media police that will force MSM to follow ethical reporting practices. We still need them to break the stories for us to dissect though.
So is old Ben throwing down the gaunlet?
"Tis but a scratch."
"But it has been a moment, not a revolution."
Look for more "moments" in your future. However, if the MSM cleans up its act and begins to report accurately and cover all viable sides of issues and positions (without burying the "other" point of view or fact on page 28, or in the last paragraphs), and at least tries to set aside their own biases, they can serve the function they were supposed to be serving all along and can survive and thrive.
"But it has been a moment, not a revolution."
In a way, he's right. The revolution started years ago. Arguably, by Reed Irvine and Accuracy in Media (I used to read it in the early 70's).
Ol' Ben changes the assertions to make blogs the replacement for reporting. In truth, it simply counters the bias and up-to-now unanswerable issuance of media edicts that the elites declare are a reflection of reality.
His assertion that only the big media can gather facts is, to some degree, true-- bloggers don't have the resources of major news groups. But the Old Media are no longer the gatekeepers to the Garden of Truth, and are nowhere near the final say on matters, and when they try to be they can be countered by the new 'open-source journalism.'
Memo to Wasserman: And Drudge Himself was a blogger in the beginning, and look what HE did to your impeached rapist Marxist icon.
I hope the term, "Pajamarazzi", takes off like a delta-wing fighter! If the MSM hasn't had its death-knell, then at least it's on life support - US.
What was debunked? If a single charge is debunked, does that make the dozens of other claims invalid?
I keep hearing the SBVT have been debunked....but I have not personally heard the evidence. Can someone enlighten me?
Is he talking about the Swifties? If so, can someone tell me what was debunked by the MSM? I don't recall them debunking a single one of the charges.
oops reality slipped in to his piece.
Part of this is nothing more than life support for the MSM.
CBS et al could always act with impunity because the only feedback was from other MSM in their leftist culture.
Now the right is watch and PARTICIPATING.
IOW: The watchmen have watchmen.
Ben's still asleep and dreaming the Leftys' Dream. Matt Drudge explained it all several years ago, with excellent examples, in his brilliant address to the largely disbelieving and clueless National Press Club. Anyone with the wit to comprehend it got the message then.
Ummm... I missed the part where they proved that the attacks on Kerry's war records were spurious. Can someone please enlighten me? Thanks.
Mr. Wasserstein, the point is not we win, you lose. So perhaps revolution is the wrong word. This IS about some of the principles liberals and conservatives espouse to cherish. Freedom. Equality. Words, and their power to enrage, convince, persuade and enlighten. So while this may not be a revolution in the classic sense, it DOES represent a major change. We, as citizens through the power of communication via the internet, daily, even hourly, express our doubts, hopes, ideas and most valuable- our questions. Sometimes, we can track down our own answers. We check one another for facts, validation, critisism. We are in an odd way, in partnership with "professionals" like yourself.
When we uncover facts of import, we share the information- openly. Since the MSM pays a great deal more attention to places like Free Republic nowadays- your reporting is sure to be richer and more in-depth- it has to be since we have the ability to research stories as well.
To my way of thinking, this is a marvelous civics lesson for us- and you. Rather than denigrate- you ought to celebrate.
Remember that Philadelphia is the town where union thugs can beat up Freepers on the street and get away with the crime.
Zealot Presstitutes with names like Wasserstein have FReeper blood on their hands.
Did I miss something? Have any of the old fashioned reporters demanded that Kerry sign the 180? Or are they just going to rely on the docs on Kerry's web site?