News is bad all around for journalists [bemoaning pending demise of protected MSM monopoly]

Baltimore Sun ^ | February 20, 2005 | By Ellen Gamerman and Stephen Kiehl

[Jim Robinson]

Also from the article:

"Radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Web sites such as FreeRepublic.com and RatherBiased.com have filled the vacuum in explaining how the press works. Talk radio often uses bias to explain what makes news - and that explanation is accepted by many because the mainstream media have not offered an alternative, said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University."

[Petronski]

You should be very proud.

[Miss Marple]

The "alternative" Mr. Rosen is looking for is an explanation other than bias. I believe we will be waiting a long time.

[stands2reason]

I'm thinking the Sun doth protest too much.

It's cute how they buried their whine inside a "trend" by bringing up those other cases. As if they really give a rat's bum what happened to the Herald.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Oooooooooooo-rah, Jim! You should be very, very proud.

[dandelion]

It's been a banner year for you and for FreeRepublic! Yes, you should be very proud. Now, if only we could get the Old Media to see that the rise of alternative media could be a GOOD thing, instead of the "end of the world as we know it"...

Well, maybe it IS the end of the world as THEY know it.

[GarySpFc]

Thanks Jim.

[Always Right]

Talk radio often uses bias to explain what makes news - and that explanation is accepted by many because the mainstream media have not offered an alternative, said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University."

Or, maybe we accept it because their bias is as clear as the nose on their faces.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Now all we need is for the Erlich-Steffen investigation to
subpoena the IP information on MD4Bush from FR, his ISP and the Washington Post and it will be a VERY bad week indeed for them.

[atomic conspiracy]

Jim, I am not given to hyperbole but you and a handful of others have changed the world.
The institutional media and their depraved values dominated western culture and public thought for 40 years, and that dominance brought western civilization to the brink of collapse.

As Churchill might put it, the Rather and Eason take-downs are not the end or even the beginning of the end, but they are the end of the beginning.

The institutional media culture is on the defensive for the first time in its history. I think its total collapse is only a matter of time. The media-crats see the threat but their own worldview and; especially, their monumental hubris; will keep them from meeting it.

[9999lakes]

I agree. The left's Bias Media Monopoly is falling apart FAST. I see that Tucker Carlson now has a program on PBS.

The main credit for this collapse goes to Jim Robinson {Free Republic}, Brent Bozell {Media Watch}, Rupert Murdoch {FOXNEWS}, Dan Rather {Vivid Examples} and Rush.

The media is running awy from bias now, as fast as they know how.

[9999lakes]

Oh wait!

And the Pajamahadeen!

How could I have forgotten to credit them.

[FairOpinion]

"Additionally, there has been an explosion of news sources - the Internet, cable TV, talk radio, pagers and other devices - that threatens the central role of the mainstream media. "

And they mentioned FR too.



SWEET! :)

[dirtboy]

Talk radio often uses bias to explain what makes news - and that explanation is accepted by many because the mainstream media have not offered an alternative, said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University."

Gee, do you think, Rosen, that just maybe that explanation works BECAUSE IT IS FRIGGIN' CORRECT?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Love it. Now they will have to do real journalism for a change and also quit with the bias by omission of real news stories.

I'm still waiting for the public to start taking the media to task over their grandstanding "elephant in the living room" stories. The people need to start asking them why wern't they covering the elephant when it left the zoo or when it strolled past their offices.

[Cuttnhorse]

Good going Jim...Free Republic is becoming a household word.

Cheers from Argentina

[John Lenin]

Whine, moan, coudgh, cough ...

[Iris7]

I do hope that this article gives you the quiet satisfaction it gives me. "Rarely in the course of human events" have such deserving behinds been so soundly kicked.

Just love their sniveling self pity. Ah, a dish best served cold.

Been mad at those guys since 1967 when I began to see that they were lying wholesale. I made it home, by a miracle, but a lot of the guys didn't.

[Miss Marple]

I see that quote jumped out at you, too.

I bet that there is a committee being formed to come up with an "explanation" other than bias.

I eagerly await their explanation of why we had MONTHS of coverage of Bush's TANG records, and not one paragraph about Kerry refusing to release his records.

[EternalVigilance]

BUMP...