CNN/Aaron Brown Teaser: Free Republic shown

CNN | 2/14/05 | CNN

[cyn]

Aaron Brown teaser about blogs just now shows Free Republic home page.

Go freepers!

BTW, Matt Drudge was great on H & C last hour, and elaborating/clarifying on the role of the internet. Best to ya, Matt.

[longtermmemmory]

I think he resigned because there was MORE than just this one comment. I bet this one ity bitty comment was just the tip of the iceberg. I bet the new reality is that all MSM types percieve a bullseye on all their past comments.

I bet the suits asked him what else was out there first, THEN he was asked to fall on his sword.

[longtermmemmory]

MSM should take note for their carreers. If it is not on FR, its not news and you are not an important "journalist".

[RandallFlagg]

You folks know what this tells me?

CNN's ratings are down.
They need an edge; SOMEONE to watch them.
They mention FR to get a boost.

To paraphrase Gunny Highway:

"Don't give the pr**ks the satisfaction."

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like, when we're just slummin' it, FR does half again as much as DU did at its peak. :') And that peak is only 250 per million Americans, or 75,000. FR's peak appears to be 285,000, and currently 180,000. Wowzo.

[hole_n_one]

And you are still da bomb!

[longtermmemmory]

the only way CNN can benefit from FR is to have a troll post a thread which tells us CNN is going to mention FR.

However if the Aaaron brown story is an indication, it will just be FR bashing stories which do not report the truth. (ie the rumor story which CNN conveniently does not mention that FR poo pooed the story as a mere rumor.)

CNN would be better off just hiring a pretty body to just DRYLY read FR comments without selection.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[SevenofNine]

OH Man I miss Aaron I rather watch Animal Cops on Animal Planet at that time

[Mo1]

Ok .. I just watched the second airing

Nice if Howie to skip the fact the NCPAC didn't start the rumor and that he was set up by either a dem dirty trickster or the two reporters from the Washington Post .. OR both

What a hit piece from CNN & Kutz

[Mo1]

I bet the suits asked him what else was out there first, THEN he was asked to fall on his sword.

I'm betting the "suits" saw a copy of the tape

[cyn]

The CNN script shows the truth of what you & others said.

Segment was done by Howard Kurtz, CNN Washington. Entire segment lasted about 3 minutes. This is the middle portion:

...He [Jordan] backed off that statement when challenged, to what degree is not clear, and later said he never meant to suggest, and doesn’t believe, that soldiers were intentionally killing people they knew to be journalists.

But bloggers, led by such conservatives as radio host Hugh Hewitt and National Review Online, began pounding Jordan.

But the mainstream press, with the exception of a few newspaper articles and talk shows, ignored the story, and yet it didn’t matter.

The businessman who posted the first account of what he heard Jordan say at Davos had started a brushfire.

[Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine.com, speaking:]

“Anyone who is a witness to news can be a reporter because anyone and everyone has access to the press through the internet. Every one is a Wolf Blitzer in sheep’s clothing.”

Jordan was already controversial for writing in the New York Times two years ago that CNN had not reported some of Saddam Hussein’s abuses to protect its Iraqi employees.

Why does CNN or CBS, which came under cyberspace fire for Dan Rather’s discredited story on President Bush, care what bloggers say?

These online commentators can generate enough noise that they push a story into the press [sorry, but I’ve gotta interject here: Hellooooo, OM, what we’ve been asking is why isn’t the story already there?] or circumvent the main stream media entirely by communicating directly with computer users.

The people who own the printing presses and television towers are no longer the gatekeepers of what is news.

Wow. Who wrote this script? It is awesome. And the intonation -- well, the italics are an attempt to recreate that.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

If you get a live recording of Bob Marley performing "Exodus" at the live "One Love Peace Concert" in Jamaica in 1978 you will hear in the third stanza a quietly uttered off-mike statement that was little known and understood at the time. The very feint words, spoken in the South Kingston Rasta dialect, that can be heard are...

"Free Republic will be Da Best Media in Da World in 37 years Man !".

Bob Marley's prophetic words uttered all those years ago seemed to have borne fruit...

The universe works in mysterious ways. :)

[DoughtyOne]

This proves it. CNN will do almost anything to get ten more viewers. That's all they'll get at the most from the thousands who come here. We don't care what they have to say.

[Free Vulcan]

It would be cool if we all just boycotted DU for a week just to freak them out with how much their numbers drop.

Problem is they'd get an idea pretty quick of who the plants were.

[cyn]

lol, and right after that, he was heard to say, "JimRob da mon!"

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Thanks for that tidbit of prophecy. I have spent hundreds of fruitless hours playing, rewinding and fast-forwarding that part of the live recording to discern that part of what he was saying. There was a lot of crowd noise at the concert in the background. Herbal frequency disturbance syndrome audio problem.

[cyn]

Whoever wrote the script for that piece included some choice lines.

I especially like this one:

"But the mainstream press, with the exception of a few newspaper articles and talk shows, ignored the story, and yet it didn’t matter."

How did that get by? Or are they so naive there, think no one cares what they are doing? Helloooo??

[sodiumodium]

DU has a thread where they're attempting to figure out why FR is higher than DU on alexa. I mean, a reason besides the most obvious one ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3097953

[Darkwolf377]

Man, their threads are so damned duuuuull. It's the same "they rigged the election-check" insider-joke stuff every...damned...day. It sounds like three ponytailed men, three pot-damaged Michael Moore fans, usually someone with a handle like EarthMotheroftheInternet who talks about health care is killing her and she has been on "disability" for back problems since Johnson was president (Lyndon, I assume), and the rest are college kids who refer to W as Dumbya, The Chimp or B***. It's the same bunch, and they're talking conspiracy theories ALL the time (probably while watching X-Files reruns)--Bush rigged the election, personally shot down Wellstone's plane, Cheeney/Haliburton, Nazis, blah blah blah...

I think I just made my last trip to DU. I'm always open to the opposite point of view, but it's too damned repetitive over there.

[Berosus]

I thought the number stood for daily "hits" or visits, until I tried an Alexa search on my main website, The Xenophile Historian. According to my counter I'm getting about 800 hits a day, but the number Alexa gave me is almost 4,000. Hmmmm . . .

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=xenohistorian.faithweb.com