Posted on 11/25/2004 7:52:43 AM PST by HighWheeler
This only confirms my previous conclusion that the Toronto Star is unworthy for use as a sanitary napkin.
I'm mad because it's a month too late for me to include a picture of this hermaphrodite in my "scary pictures" collage for Halloween. It would be pretty hard to find one more frightening.
BTTT
Huh. They didn't even have the decency to name the Freeper. Bummer. Sounds like something I wrote.
Ms. Zerbisias,
In your interesting article about the Pajamhedin, I believe you display an error in thought which renders the entire article nugatory.
The error, if I am right, is that you understand us (I count myself among the pajamahedin, though I should more precisely be called bathrobehedin -- I don't wear pajamas) to be attacking the sources of our information. But the problem as I see it is that in the MSM (Mainstream Media) too many reporters not only bring information to public attention but also (As Mr. Jennings in a recent advertisement claimed to do) they try to tell us what it means.
AS you and I both know, editing begins when one decides THIS story, rather than THAT one, is worthy of reporting. That editing is unavoidable. But while the MSM pretend to report, they actually end up seeking to indoctrinate.
When the MSM goes back to reporting, the pajamahedin will happily return to our enjoyably bilious commentary. But when they insult our intelligence and mislead our country's electorate by slanting their reporting, we will do what we morally and legally can to give them as much trouble as they can stomach -- and more.
In related news .... ;) I think you may not understand or appreciate the pleasure we take when our typos and misspellings are pointed out. To us this indicates that we amateurs who do not have the support of proof-readers, fact-checkers, and style books do a better job of getting the news out than you professionals.
For example, you write
Which brings us to those pajamahadeen, the online brigades who claim credit for bringing those documents into question and forcing Rather to apologize for his reporting. [emphasis added]Not only do some of us (not me) CLAIM credit for bringing the Rather-gate forgeries into question, we DESERVE credit. It was unpaid amateurs or volunteers who in a few minutes did what Gungha Dan neglected or refused to do, namely look critically at the documents he adduced as evidence.
By your use of "claim credit" you suggest that the claim is, at least, questionable. No one who knows what happened could suggest that. So we are left with an uncomfortable question: Are you dishonest, merely ignorant, or some third thing?
What ever the answer to that question is, in your attempt to mock and to disparage us, you show why we are necessary and why we will not go away. Somebody has got to care about the truth. If the professionals won't, then we amateurs will set up a howling that will continue to be heard even as far away as the editorial offices of the Toronto Star. We will not only howl. We will hunt, we will pursue, and we will catch your brethren (and sistren) in their dishonesty and we will take their jobs.
One down, uncounted thousands to go.
If these writers were smart they would realize that forums like FR discuss their writings. Free PR and a way to expand their audience IF their ideas can survive scrutiny.
If they are fortunate, people will go from "what an interesting article" to seeking out a specific writers ideas.
Yes I do remember fair witnesses. I am constantly surprised how many Heilein readers there are here.
the Rather/60 Minutes hit piece on Bush was NOT news .. it was recycling of an old rumor .. and should have been known to be a rumor. The "unimpeachable source" was a known Bush-hater. How does that meet ANY standards?
You could try printing the news instead of propaganda pieces and opinions and calling them news.
You could get up out of the chair you're setting in and find some stories instead of waiting for it to come in over the wire from AP or Reuters.
You might even want to trying some good old fashion fair and balanced investigative reporting on both sides of the political spectrum instead of just one.
Doom on ya Presstitute !
ROFLMAO!!!
If all of this is true, how come I'm not the one crying, wailing, complaining, making ready to migrate to New Zealand, scheduling psychiatric therapy, or comitting suicide at Ground Zero?
I just looked down at my feet: Nope, I'm not walking shakily on the edge of a precipice in mortal danger of plummeting into a fiery, lava-filled chasm of doom.
... I've got my faith in the Lord to protect me.
"The 'niche' occupied by the press in the 'ecology' of a free society is the dissemination of news (recent facts relevant to public policy) to the citizenry. When a news organization, reporter or anchor instead propagandizes by substituting opinion for fact and worse outright falsehoods (cf. D. Rather), it becomes 'less fit'. Predators (bloggers) 'cull the herd' making by
removing less fit individuals (brining down D.Rather, for instance) leaving a 'more fit' species (press).
"The MSM should be grateful for us.
"Isn't it marvelous how Darwinism can be used to explain anything if one is just creative enough?"
Way back when, I wanted to be one of those, when I grew up. (*sigh*)
The arrogance of the MSM is astounding.
The black knight from monty python and the holy grail must have been a democrat...
"Looks like he likes to dress up as a woman"
Well, the name is AntiniA, not Antonio..
It is a female name.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/mn/MNFRAfire98_7_1.jpg
Eeeeek always showing off !
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