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Posted on 02/20/2005 12:22:06 PM PST by CHARLITE
Good article.
Resistance is futile: We are the Blog
" . . . in uniform wearing our Dr. Denton’s!"
Actually, I prefer Cherokee brand red plaid flannel myself.
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Welcome to the "New Edge"..
Here, we ARE the media..
LoL..
They forget (or purposely ignore) the fact that a majority of their audience is neither uneducated about nor disinterested in the world
It was the MSM that was too uneducated and disintered to comprehend the nature of the silent majority. The amazing thing is that they still don't get it, which reinforces the perception of their wilful ignorance.
Prepare to be informated!
Nothing proves the validity of this article to me more than my own experience beginning in the 1950s -- and recently the innumerable times I heard callers tell talk show hosts, "I did not know others knew this! I thought I was the only one! It's so good to hear others express the opinions that I have! I didn't know."
Yes, for years at the beginning of modern talk radio -- when the "fairness doctrine" was put to death in 1987 -- those statements began the majority of all calls to the shows.
NEVER AGAIN :FAIRNESS DOCTRINE! It's about our free speech. It's worth spilling blood. Our free speech, their blood.
Beyond the electronic medium two-newspaper cities disappeared and ultra-liberalism became "centrist." Employees became advocates, not reporters.
RIP, MSM. It's time for journalism to wash you stains off its shorts.
FMCDH(BITS)
What many people don't know is that we have now come completely full circle: in early America, "broadsides" as newspapers were called were usually read aloud in an inn or pub as families and diners sat. The audience, who often knew the details of the local or regional scene, would add detail to stories or challenge what was printed. ("Farmer Jones' Barn Destroyed in Fire. Says He Won't Rebuild"---and someone would say, "nonsense. I was talking to him yesterday, and he already has a blueprint.")
Had to be an ancestor of a present day Freeper.....:-)
Hee hee!! You just gotta wonder what Jonathan Klein goes through every time he sees the reference to bloggers in pajamas... ;o)
Personally, I'm waiting for the manifestation of Howlin' Howie Dean's declaration that he's going to show the American people how the Democrats are "the party of the future," and the "party of new ideas!"
Hunh?
Check The Nation "Now He Has The Power"......to see how deluded some liberal pundits are about Dean's "ascendancy to power."
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050307&s=nichols
To be fair, of course we depend upon MSM articles. But the difference is we are no longer limited to one or two MSM print sources. We can get the rest of the story. We can even go directly to the source, the closest MSM to the actual event.
We can even overcome the MSM's worst form of bias, the spike.
Perhaps it is fair to say that the majority of MSM employees are indeed reporters, perhaps not.
Who needs a wire service anymore? BTW.
The MSM electronic medium is totally hopeless -- that includes Fox if their TV reporting is anything like Fox radio news, IMO. The best radio news on the hour is the version of CNN news being carried by 650AM in Sacramento. That news reminds me of the straight reporting of 1940s and 1950s. No cutesy comments. No show biz crap. Just read the news and go away. Fox radio is exactly like ABC radio "news."
Exactly. It's amazing how much we are now like the original papers---and of course, for a while, when the national news exceeded the ability of local people to check facts or comment on it, we had to rely on the MSM. No more!
You are correct in that. "The Spike" is the worse bias. At least when a subject is covered by the MSM people have the chance to believe or not. "The Spike" is the death of a story.....it will no longer be, thanks to the new medium known as the "internet".
The MSM is quaking in their boots. Keep your eyes and ears open...and your powder dry...for the gubbmint attacks to come on the "internet". They're wettin' their jammies over this.
FMCDH(BITS)
But this is Johnny-come-lately. We had the same point here on FreeRepublic six months ago. See "The Manifesto of 'Pukin Dog'" which was published here and on the Net, six months ago. The point is now obvious to anyone who is paying attention. Members of the MSM who don't "get it" as of now, have to be aggressively ignorant.
Congressman Billybob
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