The pajamahadeens are digging their own graves (FR Featured)

Toronto Star ^ | Nov. 25, 2004. 01:00 AM | ANTONIA ZERBISIAS

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ANTONIA ZERBISIAS


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[rlmorel]

Ahhh. They must mean the "legwork" of "journalists" such as Jayson Blair, and of course, Dan Rather (Sorry, forgot the scare quotes on Dan's name...)

WE know just how HIGH their standards are! (ROLLS EYES) /SARCASM MODE OFF/

[rlmorel]

EXCELLENT RIPOSTE!

[rlmorel]

I love it! Great hints to her! Nice job. See, your post is why I like to come to Free Republic!

[Doctor Raoul]

Toronto Star

'nuff said.

Their new slogan, "Hurry and Read Us While We're Still Around"

[Dan Middleton]

Ah-ha, they're predicting out demise, that's a sure sign we're on the ascendancy.

[Veto!]

The shift from mainstream media to alternate sources such as the ethnic press, cable networks and the Internet, are threatening the future of the solid, stolid mainstream journalism.

Actually, dear girl, we wouldn't shift away from MSM if your reporting weren't so biased. That's the whole point. We have to go elsewhere for balance. Which may not be the worst thing that could happen to any of us, the MSM, bloggers, Netizens. It forces us all to do our homework. It's a good thing.

[Doctor Raoul]

"I admire many mainstream columnists, including Molly Ivins (a heroine and model), Helen Thomas, Paul Krugman, Robert Scheer, Richard Cohen, Maureen Dowd, Katha Pollit, David Corn, Lewis Lapham, etc."

The LIBERAL bar scene in Star Wars.

[Doctor Raoul]

The truth is, bloggers are not that well read in the great scheme of things."

I can name a dozen bloggers. The cable news channels frequently have bloggers as guests.

Who's every heard of Antonia?

[rlmorel]

You make a great point. Also, one is encouraged to attempt to completely read and comprehend the points that are being made by a poster. As a result, we have a good grasp on the issue. Often, this forces us to read completely and to the end a piece that we might have otherwise stopped reading after the first paragraph.

People here are great, but to the chagrin of anyone who fails to read and understand before posting, they are quick to point out and poke holes in your treasured opinion or analysis.

It makes for a much more free flowing exchange of ideas which do, on occasion, ignite tempers and passions. I'll bet the only time you see that kind of free, uninihibited exchange occurring in the NY Times building is when an employee (like Jayson Blair) is being escorted off the premises by security. And even then, all the free, uninhibited exchange was coming out of his mouth.

[Twinkie]

Sometimes bloggers ARE "checks and balances" when needed.

[Libertina]

Ironically, bloggers mostly feed off the work of professional journalists who do the legwork.
ROTFLOL What a bunch of twaddle. Journalists who contact more than their favored democrat talking heads for quotes or information? - not lately. The posters on FR and other forums do more legwork and post more background info than the msm ever has done. We don't forge documents or "happen" to publish a book the same week as we air a related crockumentary ...er.. "documentary." By the time their garbage airs at 6:00 PM, we've already investigated the facts and exposed them.

[sionnsar]

The shift from mainstream media to alternate sources such as the ethnic press, cable networks and the Internet, are threatening the future of the solid, stolid mainstream journalism.

You brought it on yourself. Your lies, distortions and omissions over the years have brought us to where you are simply... irrelevant.

[Revolting cat!]

ANTONIA ZERBISIAS
Who has an anagram program, so we can figure out who really wrote this?

I do, I do! Obeisant Zairians wrote it!

[ladyinred]

But, just like trigger happy celebrants in the Middle East, who have yet to figure out that what goes up must come down, they can't see that, by firing up at us, they will also kill themselves.

Wrong you arrogant fool.

So you do the legwork do you? HAH! The point was Rather didn't do the legwork, it was all a fraud to bring down the President. All you leftist "Journalists" do is repeat the DNC talking points and call it hard news.

[tet68]

He doesn't get it, Those aren't graves, they're
pajamahadeen Foxholes cause we are in a war with the MSM

"Dig you B*stards, Dig! Your cyberlives depend on it!"

The shovel and mouse are your friends!

These people don't even know we have figured out their
pattern and have them in our cyber crosshairs.

[T'wit]

>> the still much-watched 60 Minutes

60 Minutes deliberately and repeatedly used falsified information in order to deceive and manipulate its audience. You'd have to be a bonghead to believe anything they say now.

[Doctor Raoul]

ROFLMAO

The shovel and mouse are your friends!

Don't you mean "moose und squirel"?

Anyone seen "Fearless Leader"?

[Doctor Raoul]

the still much-watched 60 Minutes

Word's out by noon that Dan is roadkill and yet he's still #3 in that night's ratings...

Hertz: We're #1
Avis: We're #2 We Try Harder
CBS: We're #3 We LIE Harder

[okie01]

No, not at all. We post breaking news sometimes before the "professional journalists" are aware of it. WE are the check and balance of the "professional journalists" and they don't like it.

We have yet another advantage. On any FreeRepublic thread, there is at least one genuine expert on the subject -- often more. A given FReeper will invariably know more about the subject at hand -- be it rocket science or plumbing, medicine or metaphysics -- than the journalist.

As such, we can spot his errors, counter his spin and correct his mistakes...and quickly discern the real meaning (if any).

There is no substitute for real knowledge, when set against a facile craft (often practiced with incredible sloppiness).