That is a really, really good write up of the affair. I can’t wait to read the book.
Excellent stuff!
Congratulations I.T. ~ Good job!!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Linda Eddy's "Pajama People."
This is just great! What is the frequency, Kenneth?
A partisan journalist hack is flushed and the nation is saved from John Kerry. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Ping.
So someone on the Internet caught your TV network rigging up explosions to make crash tests look more dangerous, or falsifying documents to support a point your newsmen were trying to make. Naturally, you're going to be resentful -- thanks to the power of the Internet, every time you screw up, your mistake will get halfway around the world before your explanation can get its pants on. Nor is there a secure way to send your screwups down the memory hole for good.(emphasis added with malice aforethought)Solution? New Media Are Evil. Make those rubes who don't know much about computers or the Internet think that the Internet is the Root Of All Evil. Show them all the worst parts of it, like the losers, pervs, and precociously sexualized kids on Myspace, or the neo-Nazi websites, or the endless, endless pornography. And don't just write TV-show scripts about the evil of the Internet, either -- tell your audience on the news, every night.
Since the early 1990s, a disproportionate number of news items about the Internet and its various uses have been either condescension and belittlement, or paranoid scare stories. Incidentally, they do the same thing with video games, too, but there it's all about keeping a profit margin. If you tell scary stories, people want to pay attention to you, and you sell more advertising space. But if your newspaper, TV news broadcast, or cable news network can both sell advertising space and scare the audience away from your online competition? Dingdingding! Jackpot!
Related to this is the paranoia and hatred the "traditional" media often express toward any technology that gives consumers more control over the content they watch or listen to than the media providers want them to have. This was most clearly and blatantly expressed in the now-infamous 2002 Cableworld interview with then-Turner Television CEO Jamie Kellner, in which he outright declared that using a Tivo was theft, and that television viewers have an "implicit contract" with broadcasters that obligates them to watch commercials. And only when pressed by the interviewer did Kellner grudgingly allow that it might be okay to go to the bathroom during commercials....
Danny-boy and Mapes shouldn’t just be unemployed - they should be in federal prison, along with all of the network execs who participated in the collusion of attacks.
Hi IT, this was a fabulous read. Well done.
Sea... Christmas? (innocent look)
Its worth noting that the posters noted in this article are universally despised in the leftwing forums of the internet to this day.
For some reason ‘howlin’ ranks first for attacks, not ‘buckhead’.
It was one of the finest moments, not just in FR history, but in the history of politics. A sea change that to this day neither political party has yet to fully understand, as the Meirs SC nomination, and the Amnesty legislation demonstrates for Republicans, and this story and a couple of others like it do the same for Dems.
DFU SONG: Flashdance (what a feeling....Rather's reeling)
DFU SONG PARODIES | 9-2004 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
Posted on 09/17/2004 7:10:39 PM PDT by doug from upland
MIDI - FLASHDANCE -- first version
All of your news are now belong to us
There is a network with a great big black eye
In the boardroom they ask themselves why...oh, why
It's that man...Dan's the man...who does all that he can
To make our president go bye bye
There's a FReeper named Buckhead...who knew those docs had looked like bull
They were spaced way too proportional
What a feeling...Rather's reeling
With his DemocRAT dirty tricksters he is so screwed
He's been outed!...the FReepers shouted
It's about time Castro's good buddy finally is through
Their old rules are now out the door
For the Old Media, FReepers know what's in store
There's a new game we're winning...leftists, you won't be spinning
We're now the fourth estate...we just love it how you're so irate
What a feeling...Rather's reeling
With his DemocRAT dirty tricksters he is so screwed
He's been outed!...the FReepers shouted
It's about time Castro's good buddy finally is through
Rather's reeling
(short musical break)
What a feeling...Rather's reeling
With his DemocRAT dirty tricksters he is so screwed
He's been outed!...FReepers shouted
(So bring back Connie Chung)
This is excellent. Congrats to all who participated.
Actually Dan Rather is the reason I stopped lurking and started posting. My first post was a tribute to him.
****A MESSAGE TO DAN BLATHER****
A note to your sponsors and you.
From long time viewers who bid adieu.
It's off to FOX where we now abide.
Where THEY report and WE decide.
I love reading stuff like this which exposes the Mapes/Rather debacle. There is no question that Mapes was on a singular mission to “get” Bush and, even after being warned that the documents would be questoned by numerous document examiners, went ahead with the story.
All hail the New Media.
Well done. I was on the thread that night and before the show was over I told my wife, “This is going to blow up in their faces.” A truly historic set of events.
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Just remember, Old Media: we (Free Republic) have watched, we (Free Republic) have recorded, we (Free Republic) will teach...and there’s nothing you can do about it!
What a great story, LOL
