[shoptalk]

So if you want a car or a job, go to the Internet. But don't expect that Web site to hire somebody to sit through town-council meetings and explain to you why your taxes will be going up. Soon, newspapers won't be able to do it either.

Nice try, Mr. Mulshine, but you fail.

Sadly, most "real journalists" only encourage the tax raising which springs from the equality-of-outcomes mindset.

I can easily imagine you as wordsmith to the Crown in pre-Revolutionary America, comtemptuous and dismissive of incensed anti-tax pamphlet writers - patriot bloggers, if you will.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

‘zackly.

[nobama08]

What passes for journalism these days is a joke. Bloggers can’t be easy worse. And the internet allows people who are actually close to the news to post the truth directly without having it distorted and filtered. Dinosaur media indeed.

[max americana]

Why don’t these so-called hacks that self-title themselves as “journalists” just come out and say “we’re PROPAGANDISTS for the Dumocrats”?

[ScreamingFist]

Mr. Mulshine is smoking the drapes. FR breaks more news than the WSJ and NYT combined, unless it is news that hurts national security or helps the dnc, which is where these leftists rags excel. Good riddance Mr. Mulshine.

[kc8ukw]

There is some truth to this idea, however unfortunate that may be. Most bloggers have other full time jobs. They do excellent interpretation of the news, but most of the material they use came originally from newspapers or some other source.

Look at the blogger that dug up that old Obama audio on redistribution at wealth. That was great, but how many more little bits like that would we have if we actually had 100 reporters looking into Obama's past? But bloggers can't do that. (And the newspapers were too busy looking into Palin's past.)

We do need a new media framework, I think, but I don't think the current situation is sustainable. If the newspapers go under, bloggers will suddenly have a lot less to talk about. Presumably the market would cause something new to develop.

[RightWhale]

The strength of real journalists is the unshaven, cigar-chewing, blue ink stained editor who slashes copy to the quick. Bloggers lack this vital organ.

[hinckley buzzard]

Bloggers no replacement for real journalists.

Sorry, Junior. Newspapers are even less so.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Yeah? Too bad we have NO REAL journalist anymore.

[pepperdog]

I still believe there is a role for real journalists, to bad we can’t seem to find any.

[MovementConservative]

All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Newspaper - BloggersAP Dem shills are no replacement for the hard-boiled, hard charging, chase the story to the end no matter what real journalists.

Fixed it.

[Cyber Ninja]

Mr. Mulshine of Dorkville

...oops....dupes....poops......

[Gone_Postal]

yep thats so true

The Gas Tax [imposing a gas tax or similar levy to keep gas prices up......] New York Times

Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2008 9:27:24 AM by Sub-Driver

The Gas Tax

President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress seem to have a clear vision of the auto industry they think the country needs. It must be financially self-sufficient. It also must be capable of producing highly fuel-efficient, next-generation vehicles that can help the nation cope with climate change and finite supplies of oil.

Yet for all the conditions attached to it, the multibillion-dollar aid package for Detroit’s carmakers approved by the White House (with Mr. Obama’s support) fails to address one crucial question: Who will buy all the fuel-efficient cars that Detroit carmakers are supposed to make?

The danger is that too few will, especially if gasoline prices remain low. Therefore, it might be time for the president-elect and Congress to think seriously about imposing a gas tax or similar levy to keep gas prices up after the economy recovers from recession.

Americans did not buy enormous gas guzzlers just because Detroit marketed them relentlessly. They bought them because they wanted big cars — and because gas was cheap. If gas stays cheap, Americans would be less inclined to squeeze their families into a lithe fuel-efficient alternative.

Furthermore, even if the government managed to convert General Motors, Chrysler and Ford to the cause of energy efficiency, cheap gas could open the door for a competitor — Toyota, perhaps? — to take over the lucrative market for gas-chuggers, leaving Detroit’s automakers eating dust once again.

Americans have flirted with fuel-efficient cars before only to jilt them when gas prices fell. In the late 1970s, for instance, they spurned light trucks as gas prices doubled. But as gas prices declined between 1981 and 2005, the market share of sport-utility vehicles, pickups, vans and the like jumped from 16 percent to 61 percent of vehicle sales in the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

[narses]

So if you want a car or a job, go to the Internet. But don't expect that Web site to hire somebody to sit through town-council meetings and explain to you why your taxes will be going up. Soon, newspapers won't be able to do it either.

LOL, the local press are apoligists for higher taxes, it is bloggers who are fighting the good fight, God bless them, every one.

[Grut]

The WSJ's readers' comments are a hoot.

[Sergeant_Ronbo]

Well said!

The Big Leftard Media has become nothing more The Ministry of Truth (Propaganda) for the Democommies...and the public is aware of this fact and have quit buying the product.

The bloggers have stepped in to fill the media vacuum.

This is the New Media rising.

[humblegunner]

Problem with bloggers is that their writing skills, for the most part, suck.

The message is lost among the glaring errors.

Print media suffers message loss due to bias.

Either way, there is loss.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Newspaper - Bloggers are no replacement for real journalists

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.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Sorry Paul, "Journalism" is reaping what it has sown. Your "profession" has screamed for everything it's getting.

Hope the bankruptcies are fun!

[bray]

You will be missed by the DNC but nobody else.

Pray for W, America and Our Freedom Fighters

[I see my hands]

To: Paul Mulshine

"don't expect that Web site to hire somebody to sit through town-council meetings""

You are a desperate and delusional ding-a-ling. The mortals will do fine without you.