Posted on 02/28/2006 6:31:02 AM PST by Geronimo
Edited on 02/28/2006 10:44:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Atlantic has veered left since the death of Michael Kelly.
You worry too much, because you've never grasped Adam Smith. You honestly think that no bloggers will sit at those meetings and self-publish their accounts? and then other bloggers will publish their own accounts? And then you will be able to compare three (or more) sources for yourself and decide what the truth is?
And what will you be missing? The "objectivity" of the reporter? How did you know he/she was objective? Because the 'editor" cleared the story? How did you know the editor was objective?
You didn't. The reporter took the government's version, and wrote his own. The blogger takes the government's version, and writes his own.
The ONLY difference in all this is that the editing process is out in the open, and subject to scrutiny. That editing process was the single proprietary product of the MSM which they sold for value. Now, it is not that it is being DISCARDED (that is what they want you to believe) but that it is being DECENTRALIZED.
The real struggle is that They don't understand decentralized processes. That is the real intellectual struggle going on in newsrooms across the country, and it is political: conservatives understand the invisible hand and believe in it; liberals don't.
Time to throw some punches and put the MSM on their heels. It's great to hear the leader of the free world saying this and validating the New Media.
Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, believe it could come to this? Hats off to you -- once again.
Still some pretty good writing, tho.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47
Documents Suggest Special Treatment for Bush in Guard [post 47]
You've got it backwards. The old media already goes to the bloggers for their scoops.
The bloggers are there...in Washington, D.C...in Iraq...in Afghanistan...in their living rooms exposing the Old Media's forged National Guard documents, etc.
It wasn't the old media that "discovered" the firebombed cars in France; it was bloggers who were *there*.
We're transitioning from a system that had a few "elites" interviewing witnesses to events...into a system in which the witnesses report their news directly to the masses.
Notice that a certain elite middle man is getting "left" out of the above chain of events.
The Corrupt Old News Media Elite won't be able to manage this paradigm shift very well, either.
Whoops!! Link went to #4, not #47. Here is the correct one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47
My sister works for the Times, and her husband did before taking an early downsizing-induced retirement, so I have to watch what I say at family gatherings. But I cancelled my subscription the day it was impossible to believe the Times was acting in good faith. I had always given them credit for that, even when I disagreed with them, but what I was seeing on the editorial page could only be explained by bad faith or extremely low intelligence.
It's OK...we don't need them anymore. There is enough news from real people getting around and the networking is working. To hell with the MSM ...everything is about them. Well, we have shown them that it is NOT about them. They are supposed to be out there WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC...thye are NOT CELEBRITIES. They report the news is all..at least they USED to report the news. Now they have others who are REALLY reporting the news. :)
You're right. The MSM bias is so unfair, American react against it. The MSM understands their bias is working for conservatives, but they're afraid to be fair because in the short run, it would hurt their liberal friends. This time the "in the short term it feels good, but "in the long run it's a disaster," works in our favor. Love it.
When I am not really watching anything in particular on tv I will just put fox on so they can get the ratings.
I am thrilled that I was there on those threads that night when Buckhead, Howlin,TankerKC, and other freepers did the work of exposing those Rather/Mapes lies......an exciting night! Later, it seemed that LittleGreenFootballs got the credit....but Sammon has now corrected that perception w/the FACT that it occurred first on FreeRepublic.
Re: cartoon in post #77 - I see from looking at the NYT dinosaur that it is SMOKING something from that volcano!
Just don't feed them to dogs. That would be cruelty!
Facts don't matter to the Mapes of the world...
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