OPEN LETTER TO THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA: We are NOT Amateurs and we are going to kick your butts.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Ever notice posters here and the bloggers always link to sources, that the utmost effort is made as to vetting and veracity. If found to be lacking in either, it is slapped down in nano seconds by said posters peers.

Hell, the moderators alone here at FR make old media editors look like Hillary's turtles on a fence post.

And the old media has the nerve to say the Bloggasphere is unvetted and without editors? If only they should be a fraction as honest and truthful.

[KingNo155]

LOL, reading it while listening to "Twisted Sisters" "We're Not Gonna Take It!"

[an amused spectator]

Excellent rant, PD!

[StarfireIV]

That was... Beautiful
respectfully, StarfireIV

[Jet Jaguar]

WELL PUT!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I think the definition below of the word "Amateur" about sums it up for us all.

"Word History: When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863 Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, “I am no amateur of these melons,” she used amateur in a sense unfamiliar to us. That sense, “a lover, an admirer,” is, however, clearly descended from the senses of the word's ultimate Latin source, amtor, “lover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective,”

Above from: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Amateur

[TASMANIANRED]

You know when a similar revolt happened in France there were a bunch of folks that lost their heads.

I'd be satisfied if they lost their jobs and had to find decent work instead of the swill slinging they do now.

[valleygal]

BRAVO!

I only get my news here, FOX News (TV and internet) and talk radio. It's all I need. No newspapers either.

Thanks for a great essay. We know they're watching!

[chadsworth]

I agreed with the "rant" so much that I forwarded it to the alphabet news boys. Need more of the same..

[rolling_stone]

half the fun of blogging is finding fault with something not to cut someone down but to get to the truth...something MSM forgot a long time ago...you are 100
% correct, no sources and one will be called on it within half a minute or two...

[rolling_stone]

ah yes Marshal McLuhan the medium is the message...


http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/article_mediumisthemessage.htm

Dan Rather take note..

[Not now, Not ever!]

Ping me when you post it? Thanks.
Oh, and bookmarking history.

[PhilDragoo]

Martin Luther's current incarnation Pukin Dog nails his 99 theses to the Wittenberg Cathedral (ABCNNBCBS) doors--

--using a M-61A1 20mm Cannon Gattling Gun--

Toto exposed the Wizard of Oz as Professor Marvel--"Pay no attention to that Dan behind the curtain."

But Humpty Rather cannot unbreak his egg--

His 2002 comment to O'Reilly that Bill Clinton was an honest man despite lying to the American people on network television should have alerted all--

Bernard Goldberg's Bias in 1999, together with the continual work of Media Research Council has provided the objective data.

The Howlin-Buckhead Proof of Word vis-a-vis the Superscript Forgery caught CBS' icon with Registered's egg on his face.

Dan Rather is just another flasher in a trench coat.

[SAMWolf]

Way to go Pukin Dog!

Thanks for the ping HiJinx, well worth the read.

[potlatch]

Here's an Award for Dan after he layed an egg;

[Sivad]

"huntley and brinkley"

Yah, I remember him, too. However, my political awareness
was limited to trying to convince the neighborhood kids
that Nixon was NOT going to make us go to school year
'round. te he

"Goodnight, Chet."
"Goodnight, David, and, goodnight for
NBC News."

[writer33]

Will do, NNNE!

[Mygirlsmom]

He also complained that there was no check on the bloggers. To me, it seems that he's really complaining that the bloggers have now placed a check on the networks

Exactly! I found this comment posted on the INDC blog:

"It used to be that we needed a free press in order to keep the government honest, and now we need the blogosphere to keep the press honest."

my new tagline - thanks to poster "Jewel" on INDC

[onyx eyes]

Here is a example of how our media old-timey, that is, has not made much mention of to the viewship of the country as a whole: Over 9 MILLION people in Afghanistan have registered to vote. On a World news channel, they show people in long lines like as for food or ice or something, waiting to get their voter cards. Women with their faces proudly revealed but still properly head-covered, tell the reporter from Sweden they are thrilled to have the chance to vote in this election. A man says that he is looking forward to his country being able to hold an election. To us, it seems mundane, but, the Afghanistanis seem thrilled by it. WE are responsible for this taking place. People should know about it in "depth" as old out-going Blather would say.
So. What do we get from our own media? At the most, on the evening news, I think I saw once, about a week or so ago, a four second blip that went like "people in Afghan mummbbblllee to mumb vote in their election but the chances of that happening are sure to be diminished by factions who are against it(gloomy voice over by the reporter, and NO PICTURES of the happy people over there.

[My back yard]

Pukin Dog, I think I'm infatuated with you. Be still my heart!! lol