Say what you will about the mainstream media, but no industry agonizes more about how to improve its product, police its members and better serve its communities. Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.
We can’t silence them [bloggers], but for civilization’s sake and the integrity of information by which we all live or die, we can and should ignore them.
Have at it.
Please accept my apologies for someone living in Ohio who's a might too big for her britches.
What's wrong Kathleen, you feeling the pressure of competition from people smarter than you? When was the information provided by you MSM types ever based on integrity. Bloggers exist to fill the gap you MSMers have created in your continuing effort to only print the news that fits your view of the world. A view many people don't share.
Say what you will about the mainstream media, but no industry agonizes more about how toimprove its productget Bush,police its members and better serve its communitiesand promote world wide socialism at the expense of the United Sates. Newspapers are filled with demented communisticcarpal-tunneledwretches,overworkedunder worked andunderpaidoverpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to gettingit rightBush.
there ya go Kathy.
There -- I fixed it.
If only that were true. Ms Parker must live in a very tight bubble.
more like beyond pathological allegiance to getting it left.
The panicked squeals of the media elite are SO soothing.
Never before has there been an actual "Marketplace of Ideas" so accessible, cheap, and self-regulating.
That sounds to me like an admission of exploitative business practices. Maybe the usual style of hit-and-run smear-job, out-of-context 'investigative reporting' is in order.
A "blogger", by definition, is a single person who publishes his own opinions on his own web page. As such, his powers are rather limited and his opinions are not necessarily more valid than any other person you happen to meet.
What the Old Media avoids like the plague is the mere mention of the "F-Word".
Forum.
That is exactly what FreeRepublic is and that is exactly what exposed the attempted fraud by CBS in RatherGate.
A Forum, unlike a blogger, is the collective knowledge of thousands of individuals, from all over the World, with tens of thousands of man years of real world experience in everything from computer fonts to law to medicine to business to baking to landing an F-14 on the deck of a carrier.
That is a level of expertise that no Old Media research department can ever hope to duplicate.
In regards to fact-checking, a false fact posted on our Forum on Post 36 will have several rebuttals by Post 59.
The only way that Old Media can can puff itself up in comparison to the Forum is to set up a "blogger" straw-man and then proceed to beat the stuffing out of it.
Forums do not try to replace media as they do not have to dedicated resources need to collect news at the source.
Forums, however, have stripped the Old Media of its monopoly on the global dissemination of information and have therefore stripped Old Media of its ability to falsify facts with total impunity in order to advance their very thinly veiled political bias and agenda..
**Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.**
Poor dears, maybe we need to give them easier jobs like ditch digging.
Honestly Miss Parker if you are reading this from everything I have ever seen Reporters is lazy. From College when journalism students was at the bars every night when the rest of us had projects and homework to do. In Iraq your reporters won't leave the hotels because they are lazy worthless people. I don't know how many reporters has been caught plagerising. Someone working fast food or driving an 18 wheeler can't copy and paste their work. I recall on CSPAN there was a tour of the Statin Island landfill where they was searching through rubble from the World Trade Center. The guide wanted to show more stuff but other than CSPAN camerman the reporters never left the tour bus.
Someone has just realized that paid jobs as columinsts is a career dead-end with so much 'free' talent out there...
The eyeballs go where the quality exists, not just because someone pays an 'author'...
So, as in any 'buggy-whip' industry - prevent any competition by 'talking-down' the other guy. Or if push comes to shove, talk up 'licensing'. Perhaps a Federal 'shield law' only for 'real' journalists/columnists who are of course only employed by the electronic/print divisions of the MSM...
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Sounds like sour grapes from one who is seeing the end of her monopoly on information dissemination.
A small correction.