Ted Rall's Anti-Blog Column Draws Blog Reaction

Editor and Publisher ^ | Published: February 25, 2005 3:30 PM ET | Dave Astor

[The Electrician]

I'm a fierce critic of the mainstream media

Ted has a pretty high opinion of himself, huh? In his mind it's Ted against the world. A Walter Mitty for the 21st Century?

[johnb838]

When someone like Trent Lott says something stupid the left has "groups" they can rally to hound him out of office. Well, the Bloggers are our "groups", and they do seem to be buying us some leverage we didn't have before so I say more power to them.

[MortMan]

Rall said mainstream journalists -- while often wrong or biased -- do reporting and sometimes take risks before writing stories. "A 48-year-old doing a blog in the basement of his parents' house? That's fine. That's the First Amendment," he told E&P. "But it ain't journalism."

Ted's a bit confused, I'm afraid. He has the current batch of left-wing megaphones in MSM confused with journalists. Much of the so-called "right-wing" anger at the media comes down to the fact that the truth - the REAL, OBJECTIVE TRUTH - has been obscured, lied about, subverted, and perverted intentionally by the MSM. In my book, not reporting a story because it doesn't fit your views is an intentional subversion of the truth, because you have imposed your viewpoint on others in the name of "journalism".

Feh.

Ted's journalist firends suredly include Eason Jordan, who infamously admitted that CNN continually covered up Iraqi atrocities under Saddam in order to keep their "access" - and then decried the war in Iraq as being excessively punishing to the very people formerly being shredded by the network's favorite malevolent despot.

Double feh.

[DTogo]

Turd Ball's articles are as horrible as his cartoons.

[cake_crumb]

I hope you don't mind, but I saved that. My dad in Korea will love it. The Kool Aid, peace sign and no-guns icons are great ;- )

[Congressman Billybob]

Do we have a way to find out what are the 40 and 150 media outlets that are stupid, or sufficiently leftist, to pay cash money for the gross output of Ted Rall? If it could be easily done, the information would be interesting to use.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Death in a Courtly Manner"

[marty60]

Boy he really is stupid. the media is about money. when they start going broke, they will stop the propaganda service they provide now. If they want to die an ugly death so be it. The vacumn will be filled. Rall is a pathetic leftie that can't think past his own nose.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The only reason the blog hits on the MSM have had traction is that the MSM have been guilty as charged.

Bingo! This guy whines about "the powers that be" in journalism - but mass-market journalism is the business of cheap talk about institutions which have responsibilities and a bottom line.

Any industry finds it convenient to limit competition among themselves, and mass-market journalism is in now way an exception to that rule. Except that whereas other industries have the threat of anti-trust enforcement, journalism has First Amendment protection which allows it to feel free to conspire in plain sight. Big Journalism coheres in the principle that there is no competition within it over objectivity. Anyone who questions the objectivity of a journalist is aggressively condemned as "not objective, not a journalist."

[Doctor Raoul]

Rall even dresses the part of the Upper West Side Liberal. Ever suit he's ever worn on TV looks like it came from East Germany.

As a matter of fact, Rall looks like he was from East Germany.

[Doctor Raoul]

I have to wonder about guys whose taglines are inspired by "one eyed hooker" jokes...

[GeronL]

Rall -- who also does editorial cartoons for 150 clients via Universal -- cited three examples of threatening language used by Republican bloggers, including one who wrote: "When I flush the toilet, it isn't considered violence, is it? So killing Ted Rall should be no different."

How does he know their party affiliation??

[Flightdeck]

If I came up with that toilet line, I would proud. I'm considering making it my tagline.

[KingofQue]

I don't like to advocate violence but it's always worked for me.

[KingofQue]

Most TV news services don't make any money. They are supported by the shows that do and siphon off the funds that they need, like the parasites that they are.

[Morgan's Raider]

Isn't Rall still due a midnight visit by a squad of Army Rangers?

[nutmeg]

Writing in her blog after Rall's Tuesday piece, Creators Syndicate columnist Michelle Malkin called the Universal commentator a "liberal bigot," and added: "Keep stepping in it, Ted. It's the only (mildly) funny thing you do."

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[nutmeg]

Writing in her blog after Rall's Tuesday piece, Creators Syndicate columnist Michelle Malkin called the Universal commentator a "liberal bigot," and added: "Keep stepping in it, Ted. It's the only (mildly) funny thing you do."

[ELS]

LOL!

[Petronski]

The difference between Ted Rall and a toilet?

When a toilet gets all full up of sh!t, it can be flushed.

[sauropod]

The Universal Press Syndicate columnist, whose weekly feature has 40 clients, added: "At a time when simply having a conservative Democrat spar with a conservative Republican is enough to earn the tag 'fair and balanced,' the fact is that the political blogs are dominated by the hard right.

Get the man a crying towel.

Don't kid yourself Rall. After we finish dispatching the MSM, we will institute honest, truthful reporting. Including the news story of one cartoonist that shall be unemployed in the near future.