Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters

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

[MEG33]

I saw it and made a very rare visit to kos..Trouble in that swamp.. ;)

[Southack]

"At the same time, some in the traditional media are growing alarmed as they watch careers being destroyed by what they see as the growing power of rampant, unedited dialogue."

How quickly the Old Media "forgets" that the Washington Post just took down Free Republic poster NCPAC this week.

Both sides are headhunting right now...the difference is that the Old Media is simply knocking over pawns in this Chess game compared to the Queens that we've taken down.

[Peach]

I hadn't been "over there" but went to the bloggers section of FR. Glad to hear there's trouble in paradise :-)

[Howlin]

Oh, do you have a link to the Donna Brazille story??

[185JHP]

It's a kind of "internet street justice" applied to journalistic malpractice. They just don't like the idea that they have little to no control over independent-minded people having access to power.

[Interesting Times]

Don't forget to rub it in on affected parts of the body politic...

Absolutely. They hate that.

[Howlin]

the dead tree peddlers have declared war

I think so; and I think it started a long time ago and we just didn't know it.

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO!

[GeronL]

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.

There are thousands of Drudges now, just try telling lies without getting caught MSM

[Peach]

I only have the FR blogger section link which is here; I just went over there to find a direct link and didn't but admit I don't know my way around over there.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1342578/posts

[unsycophant]

MSM invented the game of the old one-way "news" push. They have been cramming it down our throats for generations now.

Good on our side for finally putting a stop to it.

[GeronL]

The Old Media has declared war

We are all Matt Drudges now.

[Peach]

And we aren't a Silent Majority anymore either.

[Southack]

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

The paradigm shift happened the moment that Matt Drudge hit the Enter key that posted the Lewinski story that Newsweek had spiked back in 1998.

Now however, there are millions of on-line Matt Drudges...and they aren't just reporting news, they are interactively critiquing it, refining it, finding the flaws in it, and rapidly drilling down to the truth in each matter (inevitably).

The world of bloggers and chat forums has made millions of Matt Drudges out of all of us...and spiking news has suddenly become tricky for the Corrupt Old Media to manage.

[GeronL]

BUMP

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" David Gergen,... said he was troubled by the attacks on Mr. Jordan and said that his resignation was a mark of the increasing degree
to which the news media were being drawn into the nation's culture wars. "

Ah..... that great sage David Gergen should look up the meaning of culture.
And ethics.
And honesty.
And credibility.
Accusing US soldiers of deliberately killing journalists, is not a " cultural " issue.
Using obviously counterfeit documents as the basis of a " news " expose on the President of the United States , is not a " cultural " issue.

[Southack]

"In the 80's, he was in Iran and caught up initially in a hostage takeover but was rescued by Britain's SAS (?) unit. He said in a statement that the SAS were worse than the terrorists!"

You must be thinking of CNN's Chris Cramer.

[Matchett-PI]

"They have a mindset and make the facts fit their mindset." ~ MEG33

Here is a fact that they couldn't figure out how to make fit, so we didn't hear a peep about it:

"....a word about the resignation/firing of CNN's chief news guy Eason Jordan for having suggested, in remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that journalists have been killed by coalition forces in Iraq on purpose.

Let me related (sic) this short story: About a year ago, two CNN journalists were killed in an ambush on the road between Hillah and Baghdad.

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt - the military briefer - asked for a meeting of the bureau chiefs of the major western media. At that meeting he expressed his sorrow over the murder - by terrorists - of the CNN crew and asked the bureau chiefs to take down his personal cell phone number.

He told them that if any of their reporters or crews got into trouble - any time of the day or night - to call him. "Don't worry about protocol," he said. "Get to me as quickly as you can, and we'll try to get help to your people as quickly as we can."

That meeting was never, to my knowledge, reported." ~ Rich Galen 2-14-05 http://www.mullings.com

[backhoe]

Thanks... there's more of us than there are of them...

[lady lawyer]

For decades the media have been "trophy hunters" trying to take down Republicans. They don't like it when they get a taste of their own medicine, do they?