Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media

various FR links | 09-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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  The Manifesto of Pukin Dog

 

 The Dawn of New Media

 

 A New Era of Credibility

 

 

A revolution in news

 

 Bloggers knew!

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media  What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media (MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the internet. The age of the blogger is upon us.

 I think of it as a gestalt- the sum of the whole, together, is greater than the parts added separately.

 

 Post 47 and RaTHergate - The story of how CBS was caught perpetrating a hoax on the American People

 

 IUPAT issues apology ( the crying girl )

 Blows the "it was her brother" theory the idjuts  are throwing out there out of the water ... From rintense's original MONSTER thread about this

 

  The Camera Blinks A nation of fact-checkers, a network in denial.  Seen on a blog yesterday:
You can't say 'well, the sentiments were correct.'
That's like saying to the bank, 'Well, he owed me money' after forging a check.

 

  Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works

 

 Love Letter to the Blogosphere (Michelle Malkin)

 

 Big Media get smaller - Michael Reagan: The networks' days of dominating America's news are over ... ordinary Americans are more devoted to the facts than Dan Rather and CBS proved to be.

 

 Freepers- Pajamas Up! Stop Congress looting/ price gouging Hurricane Victims!

 

 HELP!!! I need some info on the History of Free Republic!

 

 

Woman wearing 'President Bush You Killed My Son' T-Shirt disrupts first lady's rally  This woman, Sue Niederer, is the same person who confronted Rr. Raoul on one of his Freeps.
Check it out:
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11197951&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=8 Niederer is supposedly a friend of Code Pink, the virulent anti-American group who promotes socialist-communist causes.

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search

 Interviews with her via mega LW groups
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000585.php

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15399.php

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/nothing-12feb04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-02.htm

 

  ***ALERT*** Inconsistencies in Marian Carr Knox's Story ***Bloggers Take Note***

 

  MORE RE: MRS. KNOX [Jed Babbin] Tell us about your SON. Who got special treatment, Mrs. Knox?

 This CBS story has become a soap opera

 

 Burkett Admits in February Weblog that He Saw Killian Documents in the Trash

 

 A Media Watershed

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media

 

 

Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar  Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar

Its sort of like a mammoth examining the tar in the pit.

 

 BLOGGERS SCORE CBS VICTORY - Hillary's 1998 Take on Internet Bloggers (Future Free Speech Alert)

 

 

 The collapse of America's media elite. What qualifications exactly, to be a journalist? -- even non-lawyer bloggers with superior research skills – think Captain Ed, Tom McGuire and Polipundit – are going to run rings around "pros" who aren't in a hurry to bring down their favored candidate.

 Who are the real journalists? Hugh Hewitt on L.A. Times editor's comments vs. CBS, Rather mess

 

 

The Fall Of The Big Media (Joseph Farah's Better Than Dan Rather, Folks)

 Big media's fall began with the Clinton Regime. Here was the most corrupt liar ever to occupy the office and the Redstream media attacked the truth tellers instead of the crooks. After watching the nightly news most of my life I stopped watching soon after Clinton was elected.

 

 Smart guys ‘in pajamas’ give CBS a black eye

 

 "Men in PJs" CARTOON... protecting America from the scum of the media

 

 "Pajama People" 3 CARTOON graphics.

 

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 Blogs Bristle at FEC's Internet Political Speech Proposal (this affects you)

 

 From Sergey Watch: FEC wants to stifle political Bloggers !

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 Menace in Black II- The FEC vs. Blogs

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 Web News Grows, Papers Spiral Down -- Please visit CaptainsQuartersBlog and see how McCain-Feingold and the Federal Election Commission are threatening political speech on the internet.

 WHO NEEDS THE MAINSTREAM PRESS ANYMORE?

 

 

 Internet Passes Radio for Political News -Survey -- Speaking for myself, I find that it is much easier to confirm or refute news stories via the internet than through any other source. That is why the internet enjoys a greater appeal for the critically-thinking. I can gather my sources, check them, and decide about the information's reliability for myself, rather(no pun intended) than relying on someone else to do my critical thinking for me.
That is what the MSM and liberal press hates about the internet. Those of us who turn to the web for our information, and who bother to check for the reliability of the information, have caught every sneaky little lie that the MSM tries to sneak through. The MSM cannot live in an environment that promotes critical thinking. It infuriates the MSM that the majority of Americans no longer accept their version of the news as gospel truth.

 

 False Democrat Radio Ad on Bush Soc. Sec. Reform Debunked - (ten lies in 85 words!)

 

 

 The Trouble With TV News ("Sept. 11...revealed the abject failure of the news media")

 

 

 THE 61ST MINUTE Blogging on the Eve of Dan Rather's Retirement

 

 Farewell to Poliblogging

 

 Government To Crackdown On Bloggers

 Menace in Black II- The FEC vs. Blogs -- We have only a few more months before the Free Republic site is in this very set of cross hairs. McCain Feingold must be repealed as well. It was an abject failure and it is the problem, more legislation to permit the government to "regulate" political speech is an assault to every citizens rights. The only law in this respect should be one that insists on accurate reporting of financial contributions and by whom they are made.

 CFR was bad enough:

 Silence, America!:

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Bloggers Beware

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Hands Off the Web, Bloggers and Lawmakers Say [Free Republic mention]

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 Digital Age Debate Hits And Misses -- Bloggers aren't aliens from another planet, a point that all involved missed. We're the media's best customers! We read and view their product voraciously, we care about its quality, we get to know the people who provide it, and we direct people to those sources and stories we find credible and interesting. Why the executives of these sources fail to recognize this eludes me.

 

 Bloggers Are Busy Rewriting The Definition Of ‘Journalism'

...and speaking as one who has done some writing for hire in the past, I have always maintained that journalism is not rocket science-- I believe any reasonably literate and intelligent adult can learn how to write a comprehensible article based on the classic "five W's" of reporting.

Therefore, the field does not need more policing- what it needs is a wider variety of new writers and critics to self-correct.

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Free Blogging in a Free Republic (Free Republic named, naturally)

 

 Blogging Beyond the Men's Club (A Little White Male Bashing)

 

 Liberal Bloggers Reaching Out to Major Media (Kristinn quoted!)

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 Lefty Bloggers Craving Media Attention

 Let's see:

Talk Radio. Dominated by Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh. Leftists try to get a toe-hold in this rich land, but have had little luck. Al Franken is more an object of derision than a mobilizer of grass-root opinions.

Blogs. Dominated by Conservatives who played a large part in re-electing George Bush. Leftists try to get attention, but no one listens to their whining.

TV News. Whupped by Fox, the Leftist stations (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS) just don't get the numbers. Their viewership declines while the Conservative stations thrive.

Conclusion: A truly objective MSM will continue to "speak truth to power" and attack all proposals coming from the Bush Administration, while simultaneously gushing over the enlightened policies put forth by Dean, Clinton, and Kerry.

 Ethics & politics: Hillary's tales -- Exactly as I predicted this week in my column, the debate between the "old" Hillary! and the "new" Hillary has already begun. It is surprising to see it in the MSM, but it will be extensive in the blogosphere.

Click below for more information.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "NASCAR Lessons for Democrats"

 Why Rathergate and Easongate Are Still Open -- the MSM and particularly the networks are broadcasting OLD news. By the time NBC, CBS, or ABC do their nightly "news" the news is out of date. All three have the same source of information. I and ANYONE can get the entire content directly off the AP or wires from drudge in five minutes. The only difference between them is the hairstyles.

 Blogs of war wrong on bias, says media analysis ((media think tank declares "Media free of bias!")

 Bankruptcy Bill: Why Is the Blogosphere Against It?Software Ownership Battle Adds $10M to Cost of Boston's 'Big Dig'

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LOL:

Who is now known as Pajama bin Bloggin

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  Canada: Blogger busts Adscam ban, officials thinking of charging Canadian blogger. -- For those who don't know, the American blog which busted the Canadian wankers is:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
Just keep scrolling for multiple entries.  Actually, here's the post which reveals the testimony, the reporting of which is a crime in Canada:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004220.php

 More here

and here

 According to 'authorities' linking to the post is a crime in Canada.

 Canada's Corruption Scandal Breaks Wide Open

 Canada: Banned sponsorship testimony on U.S. weblogs

 Let's see if I get charged for linking to this!!!!!

 website owner could be charged with contempt of court.

 CANADIANS TO BE CHARGED FOR 'THINKING' ABOUT GOMERY INQUIRY....

 Just heard on CBC...

 

 Bloggers post hopes for change [Hong Kong bloggers fight for democracy - Buckhead cited]

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 Media Think the Public is the Problem -- This is good. It's always better when they don't even see what the problem is.

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MEDIA TIPPING POINT Where Free Markets Meet Technology

-- an army of Davids has delivered blow after blow to the media goliaths: From the debunking of "the brutal Afghan winter" to Jayson Blair, RatherGate, and more, bloggers and stand-alone Internet journalists have repeatedly shown up Big Media bias, laziness, and ineptitude

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Blogging Is Grassroots (Great Vanity Read!!)

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 Death by a Thousand Blogs - (internet catching up with Chinese government - interesting piece here!) -- China will change. The question is ... will it be a controlled change or a revolution. You can't stop information anymore - and you can't keep people from wanting to be free... that's like a virus.

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Rookie political blogger tackles the Grewal tapes -- Visit the site and make your judgement. 
http://bucketsofgrewal.blogspot.com/

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 EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

 Electronic Frontier Foundation ^ |

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Damn those bloggers for forcing MSM to cover Bush speech

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 Hinderaker (and Buckhead) in the round -- We are show prep for the talk show hosts... Welcome to the changing face of history. Buckhead and Howlin changed the political landscape. Rush is still the king, but we are the tip of the sword at this game, IMHO.

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NYT Editorial: Measuring the Blogosphere -- I would much rather read the blogs than the NY Times. The people in PowerLine and PoliPundit are more reliable and don't make up stories.

 Hoist Upon Her Own Petard--
Nancy Clark writes a sports column for the Des Moines Register. Bloggers could be forgiven for having never heard of her, but she certainly has heard about bloggers, if yesterday's column gives any indication. She gives vent to a hilarious rant about the credibility of the Exempt Media while denigrating bloggers ... and manages to unwittingly demonstrate why the blogosphere exists in the first place.

Read the rest ( and much, much more ggod stuff ) here:

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

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 Blog Visitors Jump 31% in 2005 (Free Republic in top 10)

 

ComScore Networks published a list of top blogs in Q1 2005 by unique audience. FreeRepublic, DrudgeReport, FleshBot, Gawker and Fark all got more than 1 mln unique visitors in Q1 2005.