Posted on 12/27/2004 6:46:41 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
For those of us Webloggers who track the media the way that sports fans follow the NFL, 2004 will be remembered as the year the mask not only slipped, it completely came off the mainstream media.
SNIP
. RatherGate: This is the big one Elizabeth! The Bush Air National Guard story was rehashed seemingly endlessly back in February. When it was announced that the low rated mid-week 60 Minutes II would be doing yet another piece on the subject on September 8th, most on the right simply rolled their eyes and said, "again"??
But the night that the story ran, CBS also put online some of the documents that they acquired to try to make their case. Members of the popular Free Republic forum noticed that those documents looked…odd. Like something that was done last week on Microsoft Word rather (excuse the pun) than on the typewriters that a 1972 Texas Air National Guard base would have. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs created a blinking gif showing the CBS document in question flashing in sequence with a version he created in Word. And lots of people simply opened their copies of Word 2000 and tried it for themselves.
The result of all this was that on November 23rd, Dan Rather announced he was retiring in March (ironically from his much more visible nightly news anchor position-not his 60 Minutes II gig that caused all hell to break loose) one year shy of his 25th anniversary as anchorman at CBS.
It wouldn't have happened without the Blogosphere (pajama-clad or not), which began the year wondering about the biases of the mainstream media, and ended it in a position to supplant them as leading opinion makers.
…And that's the way it is. Well, from one fellow's perspective, at least.
(Excerpt) Read more at techcentralstation.com ...
Better said, "We created information for the blogs."
10. the Passion Versus Fahrenheith 9/11
9. Winter Solider
8.Iraq then and Now
7.Den Beste's Fall Preview
6.The Exit Polls
5.Political Conventions
4.Campaign violence 3.The New York Times Announces It's Liberal
2.Christmas in Cambodia
1.RatherGate
We did not create the information, we shared the information.
"So…from the home office in San Jose, California, allow me to present, via my 1972 IBM Selectric and my jammies, the top ten events that ricocheted through the Blogosphere in 2004."Edward B. Driscoll,Jr.
"We did not create the information, we shared the information."
O.K. We uncovered the hidden information. Then, everyone else got it from us.
Make that, we clarified the facts for the blogs.
Ye shall KNOW the TRUTH! And the TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FReep!.....
Words to live by.
Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth.
John VII And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free.
Buckhead created information.
Who made up this term Bog? Name another SO-CALLED bog that is worth anything.
:^)
HAHAHAHA! I gotta steal that line.
True, that must be why you are "always right".
We are not Bloggers ..
We are FReepers and FReepers Rock!
For once we agree.
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