GONE WITH THE WIND - 2007"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."
With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...
1 posted on
01/02/2007 9:49:25 AM PST by
abb
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2 posted on
01/02/2007 9:50:38 AM PST by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
Message from the ivory tower:
Don't bother sending anything to that e-mail address below -- because I don't care. That address on the bottom of this column? That is the pathetic, confused death knell of the once-proud newspaper industry, and I want nothing to do with it. Sending an e-mail to that address is about as useful as sending your study group report about Iraq to the president.
Here's what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don't want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with. And I don't listen to them either. That sound on the phone, Mom, is me typing.
5 posted on
01/02/2007 9:53:44 AM PST by
weegee
To: abb
Joel Stein is a sanctimonius bed-wetter.
8 posted on
01/02/2007 9:59:22 AM PST by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: abb
Where does this end? Does Philip Roth have to put his e-mail at the end of his book? *************
Hey, Joel! Guess what? Quite a few authors list their e-mail addresses these days. Welcome to the 21st century, Luddite.
9 posted on
01/02/2007 9:59:24 AM PST by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: abb
Sinking readership and revenue, because of biased and mediocre reporting, is finally taking its toll ...
11 posted on
01/02/2007 10:02:51 AM PST by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: abb
It seems that Mr Stein has no interest in hearing what I have to say. Fair enough. I can't force him to listen to me, and I don't even want to.
But why do I get the idea that if I tell people not to subscribe to his fishwrap, that he may berate me for trampling on his First Amendment rights?
12 posted on
01/02/2007 10:05:35 AM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(Enoch Powell was right.)
To: abb
Hey, I can respect the honesty in that column.
14 posted on
01/02/2007 10:05:54 AM PST by
ibheath
(Liberal psychosis: Don't force me to make any tough decisions - you make them, and I'll second guess)
To: abb
I actually found the article quite humorous. LOL! (This comes from someone married to a journalist and who went to journalism school herself) : )
16 posted on
01/02/2007 10:11:10 AM PST by
Tamar1973
(Making every thread a Star Wars thread, one post at a time!!!)
To: abb
Wow! How the blogosphere is going to have fun with this one!
17 posted on
01/02/2007 10:12:50 AM PST by
Hawthorn
To: abb
First of all, I did a tiny bit of research for my column, And not one bit more.
A lot of e-mail screeds argue that, in return for the privilege of broadcasting my opinion, I have the responsibility to listen to you. I don't. No more than you have a responsibility to read me. I'm not an elected servant. I'm an arrogant, solipsistic, attention-needy freak who pretends to have an opinion about everything.
I haven't seen arrogance like this since GM, Ford and Chrysler in the 1970s - and I expect that the results for the MSM will be the same but faster.
18 posted on
01/02/2007 10:13:53 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Baker's Iraq Surrender Group - warming up the last helicopter out of Baghdad.)
To: abb
I was always shocked that people who write columns *do* seem
to care so much about flame mail. They must have grown up post-usenet.
21 posted on
01/02/2007 10:16:07 AM PST by
bkepley
To: abb
To: abb
" A piece of work that stands on its own, without explanation or defense, takes on its own power.'
Grafitti comes to mind.
23 posted on
01/02/2007 10:21:09 AM PST by
gcruse
(http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
To: abb
Thanks for your refreshing honesty, Joel.
In that same spirit, please let me assure you that you needn't be worried about receiving email from me anyway, since I basically never read the s--- you write, and don't give a f--- about your opinion anyway.
To: abb
I predict that we will soon hear a "solution" of a taxpayer-supported MSM. It would be something like the ACLU, where there is no accountability to go with the money.
I can hear it now: "The MSM provides such a vital service to the country, we simply cannot permit it to fall to vicious market forces."
27 posted on
01/02/2007 10:24:13 AM PST by
TChris
(We scoff at honor and are shocked to find traitors among us. - C.S. Lewis)
To: abb
"I don't want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with. And I don't listen to them either."
And that is why you are going to be looking for a REAL job, you arrogant a$$wipe.
30 posted on
01/02/2007 10:33:23 AM PST by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
To: abb
Publicity stunt because he really is irrelevant.
31 posted on
01/02/2007 10:33:42 AM PST by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: abb
Don't bother sending anything to that e-mail address below -- because I don't care. I'm too stupid to filter email.
32 posted on
01/02/2007 10:37:26 AM PST by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, thats how you sell clothing.)
To: abb
Sounds like Santa didn't think he was a very good boy, and now he's taking a tantrum.
To: abb
A piece of work that stands on its own, without explanation or defense, takes on its own power.
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Dear Mr. Stein:
I think I can safely say that nothing you have ever written, are writing, or ever will write has, is, or will ever take on a power of its own. Ever.
This is why you are writing for a media that is destined to be thrown in the trash the next morning. If you're lucky.
Choke, Turn Purple, and Die,
Cheburashka
41 posted on
01/02/2007 12:43:38 PM PST by
Cheburashka
( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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