Posted on 12/27/2008 11:43:59 AM PST by shoptalk
Local government meetings are on cable.
To the extent that some employees of the MSM are real journalists that is true.
I am one who believes that we need the MSM, just employees or real journalists, as long as the Internet provides access to all kinds.
No more limited to just the local rag, IOW.
Thus we can find the "rest of the story" and we can find spiked stories.
The bloggers, et al are a great resource for learning the "rest of the story" and finding spiked stories.
Let's see...
That clip came from an editorial board meeting with Obama and editors of the San Francisco Chronicle. Those journalists sure did a good job spreading that bit of news around by themselves, didn't they?
Almost as good as the Los Angeles Times did with the video of Obama and Ayers at the dinner for Khalidi.
What good are your journalists if all they do is bury the news that they originate?
-PJ
Hope the bankruptcies are fun!
They are. Then bloggers take and YouTube the egregious BS and voila`, the powers that be HATE them.
Gone with the Linotype and the penny paper.
You will be missed by the DNC but nobody else.
Pray for W, America and Our Freedom Fighters
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Take Mr. Mulshine's example of the tedium of sitting through a municipal government meeting. Some folks actually care about issues debated/voted upon and can inform their local community through the inter-web thingy without waiting for the dozing "journalist" to file his story.
Some non-journalists are actually experts in certain areas and don't need to use the dead tree media's work product as a springboard for informed discussion.
“Journalists” forget that the purpose of a newspaper is to sell ads. The ads are placed on the pages before the stories are.
And most newspapers simply copy off the AP and Reuters wires to fill their column inches.
I’ll miss the flash-bulb cameras! ROFL
Excuse me Mr. MULEshine,
There are no “real journalists”, or very few of them for sure. FR is where I can scan worldwide news, gather some facts or keep it narrowly focused depending on my interest of the day, it’s got them all beat IMO.
Sure, I’d love to be able to hold a real paper in my hands and read, something satisfying about that as I dislike squinting at a screen, scrolling through an article but it sure beats the propaganda mills regardless.
In our rural Texas area we have a couple of weeklys that hit on the local town councils and issues as well as the annual Christmas parades and nice buck deer taken by locals, thank you very much.
America, the once-proud nation, certainly will NOT.
Good freaking riddance.
“Soon, newspapers won’t be able to do it either.”
They already don’t. Maybe that is why no one is subscribing to them anymore and they are bankrupt.
Many employees of the print and broadcast media have business cards or resumes that cite “journalist” as their job title. There is a vast, vast difference between that and the biased, op-ed hack that has taken over so many positions. I just want fair-handed treatment when I read an article. ‘nuf said?
I guess I should read the article, but Paul Mulshine just turns me off. He is a local, and there was a time that I had respect for him. But — in the past few years he has become just plain contrary, with a negative slant on everything.
Maybe he thinks that people will read his words if only to get a rise out of his opinions, but it doesn’t work with me. Mulshine? Ho-hum.
Yep. He’s longing for the day when only the liberally educated elites could shape public opinion.
Waaaaa! My 15 minutes of fame is almost up.
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