Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters

NYTIMES ^ | 02/14/05 | KATHERINE Q. SEELYE

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Hear hear!

[MEG33]

Oh good grief..I saw that! They have a mindset and make the facts fit their mindset.

[perfect stranger]

"Have we entered an era where our lives can be destroyed by a pack of wolves"

Ask TalonNews, they know the answer to that one.

[Enterprise]

I think Drudge began "open source journalism" when he broke the Lewinsky story after it was spiked by Newsweek. The MSM got just a taste of it at that time, and they got a mouthful when Buckhead hit them between the running lights.

[JPJones]

...they see as the growing power of rampant, unedited dialogue.

God help the USA, we can't have that! LOL!

"The salivating morons who make up the lynch mob prevail,"

Better than the salivating anachronistic criminal elite! LOL!

[Peach]

Cramer sound just like Jordan; do they have a litmus test over at CNN?

[M. Thatcher]

rampant, unedited dialogue

Otherwise known as...

free speech.

[Enterprise]

To be honest, I believe I HAVE read that he said it twice. But I think I read it on FreeRepublic! HA HA!

[JPJones]

Notice FR is never mentioned in these type of articles...lol!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Don't you love it when the enemy gives us their well-thought advise? As though they actually cared. I don't know about you, but I'm almost touched. :O)

[Howlin]

This is the quote from Howie I wanted you to see:

By Howard Kurtz

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 12, 2005; Page A01

Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an effort to quell a burgeoning controversy over his remarks about U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq.

Even as he said he had misspoken at an international conference in suggesting that coalition troops had "targeted" a dozen journalists and insisted he never believed that, Jordan was being pounded hourly by bloggers, liberals as well as conservatives, who provided the rocket fuel for a story that otherwise might have fizzled.

Fizzled? Of course, he means it would have "fizzled" because the press didn't cover the story at all!

Later in that same article:

As of yesterday, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and USA Today had not carried a staff-written story, and the CBS, NBC and ABC nightly news programs had not reported the matter. It was discussed on several talk shows on Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC but not on CNN.

As of Friday!

So they were in the position of not only having to report his resignation, but having to explain WHY he was resigning.

CNN's Jordan Resigns Over Iraq Remarks

Now I'm wondering what other stories have "fizzled out" that we haven't heard about.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Yikes! That florrid slob reeks of alcohol. I can almost hear him slurring!

'Szo, who-o-o-o joo thing wazzah Pres'dent? S'me, dammit! (hic)I'se 'lected in 2000 an' I woulda (hic) kicked ass las' time too. Yo-o-o-o got (hic) a pro'lem wi' that?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Yes.

[Nick Danger]

I can see how this stuff could get out of hand, but a couple of public hangings now and then are a good thing. They help keep everybody honest.

It will be a while before anybody in the media goes to press again with documents that haven't been properly vetted. There's nothing wrong with that, and if it took Dan Rather's scalp to make it happen, it was a good trade.

Same thing here. Jordan didn't come by his opinions on the military yesterday. His reporters knew his views, even if we didn't. That has been coloring CNN's coverage of the war. The American people do not need some McGovernite skewing the news coverage from the war zone. Better we know; and that he leave.

[MEG33]

RELEASE THE TAPE! That is what we wanted most of all..THEN the truth would be there for everyone to see!

The MSM can cry about "pack of wolves" all they want, truth IS what we want.

You cannot make false accusations against our military in front of a receptive anti American audience in Europe and get away with a lame.."I really did not mean it"

[Howlin]

It's a concerted attack to discredit us because they see the handwriting on the wall.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The empire is striking back. But they are in such denial. It is so easy to see that in the future, there will be no role for their filtering and "explaining" news. And politicians will never again be able to lie and obfuscate the truth. Their ending is coming.

[Peach]

It's a concerted attack to discredit us because they see the handwriting on the wall.

They can attack all they want but people LIKE the interactive process of being part of a blog or research team that takes on the most hated group of people on the planet. The press regularly polls lower than dentists.

[Interesting Times]

Somehow I'm reminded of the moment when the Eye of Sauron somewhat belatedly notices that its Ring of Power is about to get tossed into a volcano...

[JPJones]

who provided the rocket fuel for a story that otherwise might have fizzled.

...or been buried.