The pajamahadeens are digging their own graves (FR Featured)

Toronto Star ^ | Nov. 25, 2004. 01:00 AM | ANTONIA ZERBISIAS

[Jaded]

More drivel from North of the Border. And a journalist from a respectable publication coined the phrase "pajamahadeen".

Blah, blah, blah, blah, checks and blah, blah, zippity-doo-dah whatever.

[stands2reason]

Highness...

(curtsey)

I've been wondering how you've been doing since I don't get over to the UT too often. You all right?

[Indie]

ANTONIA ZERBISIAS: Thank you for validating what I already thought of propagandists such as yourself. How's Canada? Stay there.

[shortypic]

Hear, Hear!!! You couldn't be more correct.

[Shortstop7]

What a whiner this guy is.... worrying about he grave of MSM. Canada needs more bloggers........and maybe this guy will go away.

[Shortstop7]

Antonio Zerbisias is a complete moron. She's deathly afraid of blogs since she appears to be on a personal crusade against them nowadays. She just can't get over the fact that she is no longer able to dictate to people what their agenda should be.

Molly Ivins defected already? Thank God.

[Shortstop7]

ROFLMAO.........thanks!

[HiTech RedNeck]

But, much like the thousands of airplanes that land safely every day and don't make the news, major disasters are few and far between.

Haw haw haw, MSM is a major disaster. Read just about any MSM newspaper, watch just about any MSM news broadcast, and the overall effect is like the reporter came from Mars.

[American in Israel]

The pajamahadeens are digging their own graves

Wishfull thinking does not a news story make. An error the MSM has been making for many a year, and the strain on their credibility is telling.

[George W. Bush]

One thing is clear from both studies: The shift from mainstream media to alternate sources such as the ethnic press, cable networks and the Internet, are threatening the future of the solid, stolid mainstream journalism.

This made chuckle. But then I laughed when I realized that the verb tense did not agree with the subject of the subordinate clause.

It's "shift...is", not "shift...are.

So much for the professional media and their vaunted skills. The writer and his editor needs to go back to high school for some remedial English.

[RKBA Democrat]

I'm posting at number 373 or so on this thread. Has it occurred to y'all that the authors purpose in writing this might be to provoke the bloggers? The more time bloggers spent generating comments about this insipid article is less time spent sharpening our claws on the MSM itself.

[DooDahhhh]

good point, RK will get on with other things!

[rabidralph]

This writer is wrong. When the papers peter out, we will devote our time to much more worthwhile pursuits, such as NASCAR and hunting.

[PLK]

It's the author of this self-congratulting article who doesn't get it. If the result of the pajamahadeens efforts is a more responsible and accurate press, their work has been a success.

Bingo. And the ironic thing is that the role of the "free press" was to keep government honest. When the press began to not only try to keep government honest but to INFLUENCE outcomes with biased one-sided reporting, alternate news sources were born. THEIR role is to keep the MSM honest.

[yoe]

Zerbisias was also praising left-wing internet rumor-mongers for trying to get to the bottom of how the Republicans stole the 2004 election! Stole the election? The red states are Americans for America and the Repubic for which it stands.

The blue's are for Socialism and proudly claim the founders of Communism as their heros.

Kerry lost because he is basically a Socialist. Bush won because he stands for American Values and never wavers from that foundation. I will stay with President Bush, George Washington, Abe Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan etc. all the real Americans. Let the left lament all they will, they are certified blithering idiots, raised in schools with teachers who are blithering idiots. They think Trotsky, Stalin or Castro, all dictators, would give them a chance at freedom? No…they should try to live under Communism for awhile…..as I said, Blithering Idiots All.

[b4its2late]

One thing is clear from both studies: The shift from mainstream media to alternate sources such as the ethnic press, cable networks and the Internet, are threatening the future of the solid, stolid mainstream journalism.

Hey Antonio,

It looks like you could use a set of pajamas!

[JPJones]

"bloggers have no checks and balances.

Nonsense, until FR, MSM has had no checks and balance.

[Slyfox]

former CBS exec Jonathan Klein, in the wake of the scandal, complained to Fox News that "bloggers have no checks and balances.

The only checks and balances we need here is that you don't lie, you don't cuss, if you produce facts they must be correct and you let one another know when they've crossed the line. Poor Dan Rather, his checks and balances aren't as good as ours.