Posted on 09/29/2004 3:28:50 PM PDT by swilhelm73
Bump for a fine synopsis of a NYT piece that I wouldn't waste my time reading anyway.
Simply hilarious.
I've got little to add, but glad to bump it. Good reading.
Otherwise -- good article.
This is such a good article there's not much to say in reply. I accept Frum's thesis 100%.
Writing about blogs without mentioning Free Republic is like writing about a class of schoolchildren without mentioning their teacher.
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I thought diversity was "good"
Thanks for the bump.
I maintain the belief that if the bloggers had existed in 1992 and 1996, Clinton never would have been President. It is the bloggers that will save us from a Hillary Presidency.
They didn't cover EvilDave.com! I'm going to call the ACLU, the ICLU, Johnny Cochrane, John Edwards, and Geraldo Rivera (aka. Jerry Rivers), and I'm going to SUE the New York Times into covering my site ina favorable fashion! WAAAAAAAAAAH! I want my Mommy-State!
But I am anything BUT a liberal sissy-crybaby. In fact, if the NYT was to contact me about doing a piece about my site, I'd look 'em right in the eye and tell them to shove their communist rag right where the sun ain't supposed to shine!
LOL
how do you see # of article views?
Great find!
The moral: liberalism, a philosophy based largely upon narcissism and wishful thinking,cannot exist in an objective world where performance and logic matter.
The big networks and dailies could navel-gaze and parrot each other as long as there wasn't anyone to publicly refute them; this is no longer true. I look for more Rathergates in the near future, simply because the liberal TV and print media have engaged in sloppy reporting, selective ommission, and delusional thinking for so long that they usually don't recognize it for what it is.
History is currently moving to quickly for a network news organization to write or to re-write; look how quickly CBS got caught modifying their anti-draft transcript today. Most of the people committing these kind of deceptions are unaware that they are lying or that they will be caught lying. As a result, they react defensively and with venom at what appears to them to be a personal attack.
The left-wing blogs do nothing to remedy this problem for liberals. They basically act as an echo chamber for leftists angry that reality keeps intervening into their pipe dreams, so they only serve to promote the same kind of self-delusion that the MSM provides the average American liberal. The typical liberal media consumer is a coward as well as an ass, so he retreats to the bigger organizations to defend his many errant positions on current events. The blogs will never be of much use to a person with this mindset.
It shows that stat along with the title and # of comments.
| I accept Frum's thesis 100%.
The legacy media is sufficiently open to liberal pundits that the good ones have homes, with the consequence that the left-wing blogs are populated by writers who can't even make it in a left-wing media. By contrast, there are many very good conservative writers who have been frozen out of the legacy media because their views are not welcome in our "newsrooms." |
call me stupid, but i don't see it... where? at the top of thread?
maybe firefox doesn't read it???
Posted by Admin Moderator
On 09/30/2004 6:50:58 PM EDT · 10 replies · 9+ views
There have been several "live threads" posted today regarding the debate starting early this morning. Let's make this the official thread. Humor: Caption This Kerry Photo!
Posted by TitansAFC
On 09/30/2004 6:48:02 PM EDT · 12 replies · 77+ views
At Large | 9-30-04 | TitansAFC
no i don't....
i see everything except the "· 10 replies · 9+ views"
hmmmm
maybe i'll try IE
i opened IE (for th first time in a few months) to check and yes I see that info in IE.
but before i got to it, i had to download 5 critical security updates from MS.
wonder what's worse, MS security or not being able to see the info in question....
anyway thanks
I wonder how to fix firefox to see it....
Who knows? I'll download it and screw around with it, maybe I'll figure it out. Either way it's something new for me.
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I think he missed something. To wit, quality. Frum notes that "Klam is a freelance contributor to the Times," without pausing to recognize that were Klam a conservative, he would be a blogger. That's because there is very little room, at the Times or anywhere else, for conservative free-lancers.