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Morning Joe: ‘There Are A Lot Of Idiots On The Web That Can Turn A Phrase’
FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/05/2009 10:56:09 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

This was the pot calling the kettle . . . broke. Talk about chutzpah, this was the journalistic equivalent of John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer co-authoring an advice book on how to stay faithful to your wife [foreword by Bill Clinton]. By its cover story this week, Time deigns to dole out advice to newspapers about how to save themselves. This from the same Time whose parent, Time Inc., just a few months ago announced massive layouts. Time Inc. is in turn owned by Time Warner, which just yesterday announced a fourth-quarter loss of . . . $16 billion.

Time editor Mark Halperin appeared on Morning Joe today to unveil the cover story, written by Walter Isaacson. The essence of the advice is apparently nothing very new: papers have to stop giving away their content and find a way to “monetize” it. Isaacson proposes a simplified iTunes system for doing so. Along the way, Halperin and Joe Scarborough took the obligatory shots at us Cheeto-stained wretches of the blogosphere.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blogosphere; morningjoe; newspapers; timemagazine
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To: xp38
True enough.

I left out the old standby: fishwrap. It just wouldn't be right, somehow, to wrap fish in colourful advertising flyers.

21 posted on 02/05/2009 12:05:09 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: i_dont_chat
Remember when reporting would simply pass on: who/what/when/where. . . . .???

And .....why and how.

That was before journalism schools. Those schools screwed the pooch.

22 posted on 02/05/2009 12:05:58 PM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady of the North")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
‘There Are A Lot Of Idiots On The Web That Can Turn A Phrase’

There Are A Lot Of Ideologues On The Web That Can Turn A PROFIT................

23 posted on 02/05/2009 12:08:14 PM PST by Red Badger (Zimbabwe has removed 12 zeroes from its currency. We need to remove one from the White House......)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Joe, Joe, Joe, there a lot of idiots on TV who know how to speak.

And turning a phrase is more than your entire flock of braindead, coiffed, blowdried, made-up, dumbed down fluffernutter synaptically challenged script readers can do without an army of writers, producers and teleprompters to tell YOU what to say.


24 posted on 02/05/2009 12:11:39 PM PST by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mornign Joe is just upset because www.freerepublic.com does his job much better than him and those posting on www.freerepublic.com are amatures. Imagine what happens when the people paying their salaries finally understand that we are doing a “professional journalists” job better and for no reward other than communicating and laboring for truth.


25 posted on 02/05/2009 12:18:29 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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