Posted on 10/18/2008 11:49:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Yada, yada, yada.
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The growing power of rumor is part of a much larger transformation in the way that voters receive information about politics. The old model was a vertical one, where professional journalists delivered their reports to a largely passive audience through television or newspapers. The new model is horizontal, where folks get information from each other and actively pass it on, through e-mail, text messages and viral videos. Everyone is a potential broadcaster.
This "democratization of information" has many benefits - more sources, more perspectives, more choices. In a forum Steve moderated for The International Journal of Press/Politics, Mark Jurkowitz, associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, offered two examples: the incendiary sermons of Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Obama's speech on race and religion.
"Millions more people will see and observe and analyze those incidents online than would ever tune into a newscast showing the clips," Jurkowitz said. "So you are dramatically expanding the universe. (And) people can make up their own minds without any kind of media mediation whatsoever."
But there's also a dark side to this horizontal system. Without "media mediation," without the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals, falsehoods can flourish.
The "he's an Arab" smear reached so widely that the New York Times devoted a front-page story to its origins. Its conclusion: After the allegations first appeared in 2004, they were picked up by the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com "and spread steadily as others elaborated on its claims over the years in e-mail messages, Web sites, and books."
Said Danielle Allen, a Princeton professor who has studied the episode: "It's an example of how the Internet has given power to sources we would have never taken seriously at another point in time."
(Excerpt) Read more at metrowestdailynews.com:80 ...
Very poetic. And true.
Hey Cokie and Steve! Where’s your License????????
Reading Cokie's incredibly arrogant and clueless remarks just strengthens my resolve to do my small part in overriding the media's BS whenever the opportunity arises.
Thank goodness for sites like FR where there are so many members knowledgeable in a wide variety of subject matter who can cut through the unmitigated trash we are fed by the major news outlets day in and day out.
And what scares me, is if Barry is elected with a full court of legislators, the good ole Fairness Doctrine will shut things down.
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Cokie, you ignorant slut.
"Fiction: Obama was given an 'African' name. Fact: Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion. I am a strong supporter of the Muslim community, and I believe Muslims have been scapegoated. Obama has a great opportunity to be forthright. Instead, he has treated his Muslim heritage as a dark secret. His grandfather was named 'Hussein.' That is an Arabic-Muslim, not African, name. Hussein was a devout Muslim and named his son, Barack Senior, 'Baraka.' Baraka is an Arabic word meaning 'blessed.' Baraka comes out of the Koran and Arabic, not Africa.
"It's scary how much power they do have. They can take down someone single-handedly and I don't think Americans are aware of that." - that dixie chick
Yes, we got it going on.
10 million fact checkers cannot uncover the fact that "well -trained professionals" distort the news by falsely manipulating the selection process.
A few score fact checkers can however expose lies of omission as well as commission.
A properly trained professional need never actually lie, like Dan Rather, to commit his falsehoods. There is a very sinister side to the top-down vertical system.
Hey, Cokie, when you start reporting news as a journalist, rather than an arm of the DNC, perhaps we may pay attention again. Until then, you know what you can kiss.
Cokie Roberts, member of the “narrative is right but the facts were wrong” crowd lecturing Free Republic on accountability????
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Who’d a thunk it that Cokie was such a joker!
Do you have a link to the original?
"Accountability"? Like when Dan Rather and CBS were held "accountable" by "the Web" for trying to pass off a forged memorandum in a brazen attempt to fix a national election? That kind of "accountability", Cokie?
Man, some people just don't know when they're washed up and should simply go away. These "mainstream" Democrat news mice all make me throw up in my mouth a little.
Good Job Jim
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