[inquest]

Shaw disparages the form as the error-filled rants of amateurs in his piece, "Do Bloggers Deserve Basic Journalistic Protections?"

I can't believe someone would even ask that question out loud. As if the freedom of the press only applies to a certain class of people, and not to the people generally!

I guess I can credit him with being honest, and saying out loud what a lot of modern journalists think privately, but still, that takes quite a bit of chutzpah.

[proud American in Canada]

"These nameless bloggers don't deserve the "same constitutional protections as traditional print and broadcast journalists," Shaw writes"

Well, it seems to me that the Internet is the purest form of free speech there is and that the Founding Fathers would have more than heartily approved.

Whether today's Congress or even Supreme Court will agree is an open question.

That's why any restrictions on blogs, internet writing, etc., must be fought tooth and nail.

The amazing thing is, though, even if they declare some restrictions on Internet communication, a way will quickly be found around it. One way or another, people will talk, worldwide, without filter.

And that is the beauty of the age we're living in.

[driftless]

The liberal rags really vet their scribblers well and hold them to high standards of journalism... (trying to keep from laughing as I recall the Jayson Blair affair and reading the ravings of Mo Dowd and Frank Rich).

[randog]

The LA Times must have been emboldened to lurch even further to the left now that all those "pesky" SoCal conservatives have cancelled their subscriptions, allowing the Times to "lean-up" (i.e., layoff most of their workers) and write what they really feel.

[Reactionary]

Bloggers are more professional than most journalists, in my opinion. And they are free of pressures to conform to the expectations of the profession and of employers.

Somehow, our so-called journalists always seem to miss that salient point. They prefer to crow about their "credentials" and "fairness."

I wonder why.

[CBart95]

That horrible gurgling sound is the Swan Song of the formerly entrenched journalism world.
Its oddly horrible tonality is a special blend of Denial, Self-delusion and Fantasy.
They have relinquished their dominance by simply ignoring an obvious omission: TRUTH.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Upon my return from the 1st Major Battles of the Vietnam War nearly 40 years ago I personally told then Long Beach Indedpendent/Press Telegram Reporter DAVID SHAW that both WALTER CRONKITE and DAN RATHER were deliberately mis-reporting that war. To the detriment of our war effort on behalf of the Freedom of others.


And yet,


DAVID SHAW: RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts

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