Citizen Craig doesn't trust 'MSM' (Craigslist's founder wants to change the news paradigm)

Grade the News ^ | Oct. 25, 2005 | John McManus

[hsalaw]

". . .focusing on the White House press corps, which is possibly the hub of the news business in this country. With the exception of the efforts of Helen Thomas, no one is taking their job seriously there."

Okay. I stopped reading right here. If this guy thinks Helen Thomas "is taking [her] job seriously," he's got nothing to say to me. What did I miss? And, PLEASE, no pictures of Helen Thomas!

[sourcery]

The Internet: It's not your father's news media.

[GeronL]

not on the same planet as we are apparently

[nickcarraway]

Hey, do you know hpw many truffles she's found already this year?

[dead]

My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper was considered a community service. Now they're being run as profit centers, and they're trying to get pretty high profit margins.

You've obviously been talking to alot of really stupid people in the business.

Newspapers have ALWAYS been about profit. And that's a good thing.

[Billthedrill]

Mr. Newmark has a lot to learn. Cindy Sheehan, for example, was largely a creature born and nurtured by the media. The issue isn't that the MSM has abrogated its mission in search of corporate profits, it's that it is pursuing another mission for which it was never intended, that of advocacy and propaganda.

[Coffee_drinker]

craigslist is a great way to buy/sell stuff. I've bought and sold several things ,including two cars, one motorcycle and some other car parts. It's free and, in portland, it is very popular. He sounds a little liberal to me though, giving as an example Cindy Shehan credit. Oh well I'll still use it... :)

[CyberAnt]

I'm with you! Anybody who sides with Helen Thomas is wearing blinders for eye glasses.

[thoughtomator]

No but he's a great - if unwitting - ally against the Left.

[GeronL]

how exactly?

[thoughtomator]

He's starving MSM outlets of ad revenue, making them unprofitable and reducing their influence.

[nathanbedford]

who has an agenda and is not a trained writer or investigator and feels no compunction to disclose their conflicts of interest?

Or who, perhaps,suffers from malapropism.

But any of these would be better than a newsreporter motivated by the (gasp) profit motive.

[rvoitier]

Pardon my interruption, but I think this may be one reason:

"By offering almost all services for free, he may well be responsible for depriving newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News of millions of dollars a year in advertising."

[GeronL]

OK, I see

[nopardons]

This moron also thinks that Crazy Cindy Sheehan is "wonderful".

What he doesn't realize is that the things he's talking about ( an alternative news source ) is alive, well, kicking, and has been around for almost a decade and all of us are participating in it!

Once again, the Libs have lost...we were here first and we aren't leaving!

[nopardons]

Exactly!

[dixiechick2000]

One HUGE good night bump!

;o)

You never disappoint. ;o)

[nopardons]

Why thanks ! :-)

You have mail! hehehehehe

Good night and pleasant dreams.............

[Critical Bill]

Uou got further than me, I stopped just before he mentioned Cindy Sheean. AFAIC Pyjamas Media is going to clean up MSM the spewage.