Bring out your dead!Clank
Bring out your dead!
Posted on 01/11/2009 5:40:28 AM PST by abb
I’ve seen their columns. If not for their name, they’d have no intelligence whatsoever.
A little too morbid for me. Perhaps a closed casket wake would be less cold.
Bring out your dead!Clank
Bring out your dead!
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I am going to be thoroughly pissed if Obama bails out one single newspaper.
There has been NO incentive for the PI and the Times to compete on important stories; just competition to see which one can be a more slavering running-dog lackey of the left wing lunatic fringe.
Journalism is about change, and change is what "progressives" offer.The First Amendment protects freedom of the press, but the Associated Press has arrogated the title "the press" to itself - as though the right applied exclusively to that institution. But the framers were not, could not have been, talking specifically about an institution whose founding was generations in the future when the First Amendment was ratified. The Associated Press created journalism as we know it, with its nationwide homogeneity and its claims that all journalists are "objective." But "the freedom of the press" is the right of the people, not only of some oligarchy, to spend money to use technology to promote our religious, political (and other) ideas.
We the people talk about what is on their minds - and while Big Journalism is able to dominate the national conversation, what is on our minds will mostly be "what's in the newspapers." Conservative bloggers/forum posters exist in reaction to the fact that journalism is inherently anticonservative. And in reaction to the "progressive" politicians who draft on the propaganda wind of Big Journalism.Don't count on bloggers or talk radio to fill the gap, said former state Supreme Court Justice Phil Talmadge, another committee leader: They mostly talk about what's in the newspapers.There is no reason that the political parties cannot produce, and publish on the web, the political rhetoric which frames the national conversation. The people have no need of an oligarchy of pseudo-objective journalists to fill that role.
Start your collection today!
http://timwindsor.com/
Every picture tells a story
Look at this photo (unfortunately a low-res screencap) for what’s currently right and wrong about journalism:
http://www.lostremote.com/2009/01/10/what-a-photo/
What a photo
This screenshot of a photo by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s John Dickson says so much about journalists:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html
We’d be sad – and hopeful – if the Seattle P-I shuts down
Great news BUMP!
I want all these liberal Democrat newsrooms to die, and I want everybody associated with them to lose their jobs, their homes, and their families.
The problem with the rise of the modern public Internet is that it's nearly impossible to silence opinion regardless of political persuasion, and the fact the Left-leaning newspapers completely lost the more centrist and Right-leaning audience is essentially a "they" problem, to quote ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd.
For sale... who’s going to buy it? No one wants it if they have to pay actual money for it. Good riddance.
Samizdat
Well Mr. Mayor, there are some who might disagree:
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." -- Thomas Jefferson
Seems we haven't learned anything over the ensuing 200 years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
Samizdat was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Copies were made a few at a time, and those who received a copy would be expected to make more copies. This was often done by handwriting or typing.
This grassroots practice to evade officially imposed censorship was fraught with danger as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials.
Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as follows: “I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and [may] get imprisoned for it.”
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