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The Oregonian ^
| October 23, 2005
| Regina Lawrence
Posted on 10/23/2005 12:18:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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"Which raises a second way that blogs aren't so different from the MSM: Both choose what to cover and how. This power to set the agenda and frame the story is exactly what bothers most critics of the mainstream news, and many blogs' very reason-for-being is to critique these decisions. Precisely because they are not bound by any claims to objectivity, most bloggers spend their time zeroing in on a couple of stories or story angles they think the MSM are ignoring, suppressing or skewing. Consequently, the world-according-to-the-blogs is a very skewed place, indeed. This past week, for example, liberal blogs such as Daily Kos waited in breathless anticipation for an announcement of indictments of Bush administration officials in the Valerie Plame affair, while over on the conservative side of the blog aisle, barely a peep could be heard about that story." Not a peep on FR about the Valerie Plame affair? I'm so ashamed.
Top blogs like FR are not fair and balanced.
Guess we ought to give up the "power to set the agenda and frame the story" to others.
What do you think?
To: Jim Robinson
I'm going to go to Washington and chain myself to the WH fence until folks quit referring to FR as a blog. :)
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:20:03 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
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To: Jim Robinson
" Not a peep on FR about the Valerie Plame affair? I'm so ashamed."
Gosh Jim... I guess you've been deleting those hundreds of threads about Plame/Miller/Rove/Libby/Wilson shortly after I read them so other people couldn't find them... Shame on you. :)
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:20:29 PM PDT
by
gondramB
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:20:40 PM PDT
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: Jim Robinson
Top blogs like FR are not fair and balanced. I think the federal gov't needs to regulate the alphabet in order to balance the playing field for illiterates.
To: Jim Robinson
What do you think?You already know what I think about that:) I do wish they could settle on what FR is.
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:21:48 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Tony Schaffer is a hero)
To: Jim Robinson
Another moonbat sniffing the brake fluid.
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:25:07 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: Jim Robinson
Not a peep on FR about the Valerie Plame affair? I'm so ashamed. Hmmmm. Guess the author has gone deaf and dumb in both eyes.
To: jwalsh07
Brake fluid? Does that work?
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:26:21 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: Bahbah
"You already know what I think about that:) I do wish they could settle on what FR is."
I'm more concerned about comments coming out of congress about how blogs are not journalism and not entitled to freedom of press protection - that makes the effort to classify sites like FreeRepublic as blogs potentially an actual threat, not just an anomaly.
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:26:38 PM PDT
by
gondramB
To: Jim Robinson
Yeah Jim, it's just a cryin' shame that the leftist don't control all media decisions... sniff, sniff.
With ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and a major portion of the print media controlled by the leftists, it's really a major concern of mine that the right has developed an internet community where citizens can voice conservative views.
Talk radio and the internet are all that keeps conservatism alive these days. That really bothers some folks.
I'll be the Oragonian is perplexed to know that their readers can find out how biased their reporting is.
To: All
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:27:19 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
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To: tallhappy
Peep. Another example of shoddy reporting. For months, my tagline stated: "The only NOC list containing Valerie Plame's name was stolen by Ethan Hunt."
Accordingly, I say again, "Peep".
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:27:37 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(1 John 3:18 (my interpretation: Deeds, Not Words"))
To: Jim Robinson
Guess we ought to give up the "power to set the agenda and frame the story" to others. What do you think?I think I know a secret. ;)
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:27:41 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(You nonconformists are all the same.)
To: Jim Robinson
FR is NOT a blog...more of a meeting of the minds...
To: Jim Robinson
What, are we supposed to visit the site-that-should-not-be-named to become more rounded? Ugh, shivers.
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:28:47 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: Jim Robinson
If you don't like the balance on Free Republic or blog sites, start your own damned blog site. Of course there's not guarantee that anyone will read it.
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:28:56 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: gondramB
that makes the effort to classify sites like FreeRepublic as blogs potentially an actual threat, not just an anomaly.You know that the effort to control US will be intense. We will have free speech in this country or we won't. I'm betting that we will, because I know we will fight to the death to keep it.
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posted on
10/23/2005 12:29:56 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Tony Schaffer is a hero)
To: Jim Robinson
Guess we ought to give up the "power to set the agenda and frame the story" to others. I've heard from the MSM that there is a blogsite called "Buckhead.com".
FR is necessary if for no other reason than to document and correct the many mistakes and inaccuracies made elsewhere.
But really, I think - for better or for worse - there is a symbiotic relationship between the MSM and "blogs". The starting point for discussion here almost always starts with a posted article from the MSM.
To: Jim Robinson
I think their server choked when they did a keyword search on "Plame" at FR. Since they could not cross-index all of the data, there was not a peep. Right? I mean, if they honestly made a mistake and searched under "Vallery Plaim", there is not a peep!
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