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Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters By KATHERINE Q. SEELYE his article was reported by Katharine Q. Seelye, Jacques Steinberg and David F. Gallagher. With the resignation Friday of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months. In September, conservative bloggers exposed flaws in a report by Dan Rather; he subsequently announced that on March 9 he would step down as anchor of the "CBS Evening News." On Friday, after nearly two weeks of intensifying pressure on the Internet, Eason Jordan, the chief news executive at...

When the Web logger Laer ("Cheat Seeking Missiles") called to cancel his 25-year subscription to the Los Angeles Times last Monday, he was made an extraordinary offer. The circulation service rep, detecting that he was fed up with the paper's liberal bias, offered to sell him the newspaper without the news sections. Laer was thunderstruck. ...Journalists who got their panties twisted over Mattis apparently see nothing newsworthy about having the executive vice president and head of news for CNN accuse the U.S. military of deliberately killing journalists. ...Washington Post media analyst Howard Kurtz finally wrote something on Feb. 7. Kurtz...

A Dime's Worth of My Two Cents haven’t spouted off in a little while, largely because there have been a few events in the last couple of weeks that have, quite frankly, left me speechless (My husband may be marking this date as an important event in marital history). I’ve recovered now... The fact that the media, and some radical, nigh-Socialist Leftists have been eager to attack the President and our troops likely isn’t going to be a surprise to anyone who hasn’t been hiding under a rock for the last few years. But lately, there have been some lengths...

The LA Times' review of Hugh Hewitt's new book Blog is enlightening. The Times selected a person named Michael Standaert, with whom I am unfamiliar. I do know this... he has literally set the standard for left-leaning MSM shills to follow. He will be hard to top. I hereby call him out for a brisk fisking...

For those of you who are Catholics - especially those who are traditionally oriented - Angelqueen.org now has a Catholic News ticker for your web site and RSS feeds available HERE.The News feed is updated several times daily. You can also get feeds for the latest forum posts or daily Martyrology if you like.Other areas you may be interested in is the Traditional Latin Mass, illustrated and explained, the 7-step Rosary or the weekly 1962 Sunday Missal Mass readings/propers.God bless.

Mark Jen was fired for blogging, the ex-Googler confirmed in a Web posting on Thursday. "On Jan. 28, 2005, I was terminated from Google," Jen wrote on his blog, Ninetyninezeros. "Either directly or indirectly, my blog was the reason. This came as a great shock to me because two days ago we had looked at my blog and removed all inappropriate content...If I was told to shut down this blog, I would have." Jen's departure came just 11 days after he joined Google as part of a wave of new hires and began recording his impressions of his new employer,...

I have to admit the upcoming Dukes of Hazzard movie has a strong supporting cast. Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville will play the good old boys, Bo and Luke Duke. Willie Nelson will play Uncle Jesse. Burt Reynolds is the surprising, yet promising, choice for Boss Hogg. And, finally, Jessica Simpson will step off the set of her made-for-TV marriage and into some short shorts as the Pride of Hazzard County, Daisy Duke. Granted, most movies based on old shows pack as much punch as Newfound Glory singing Celine Dion,but, so far, this one's looking pretty good. Everything rests...

I am embarking on a quest to create an online community for the masses. It will include the opportunity for users to create their own blogs, forums, and e-books. As well as vote in polls and hopefully some other fun stuff as things develop. I am very excited to be announcing this first on FreeRepublic.com and would like to thank Jim Robinson and the crew for offering such a wonderful venue for us netizens. The site is quite rough now, but it is in development and will continue to improve with more input and an increase in memberships. I have...

Bloggin The News is the place where you get my take on the news.

This translator will take what you write in it and turn it into the manner a 12-year-old AOLer would write it. Type in what you want translated and then click the button. http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html

An Iraqi American friend of mine is back in Baghdad blogging on all things Iraqi. He spent 3 months last summer reporting on the transition of power, now he's reporting on the current situation. It's a little bit political, a little bit personal. http://www.ayadrahimtriptoiraq.blogspot.com. I traveled with his family to Detroit to vote last weekend, and their story: from Saddam's rise to power, to now, is remarkable. Enjoy.

Netherlands film festival showcases movies from post-invasion Iraq, giving raw glimpse of life after Saddam. ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- "Baghdad Blogger," a movie by a well-known Web log writer who calls himself Salam Pax, reveals Iraqi resentment over the U.S. occupation -- and joy at Saddam Hussein's removal. It's among several movies to emerge from Iraq's chaos -- including Iraq's first feature-length drama since Saddam Hussein's fall and a documentary on U.S. troops fighting insurgents -- being showcased at the Rotterdam Film Festival, which features some 800 films and runs through Sunday. The documentary is a compilation of short video clips...

For some time, I've been predicting that the blogosphere would move more and more from punditry to newsgathering and reporting, in competition with (or at least in supplementation of) the traditional media. And that's been happening. We saw it with tsunami coverage, and now we're seeing it with reporting on the Iraqi elections. Some of this was pre-arranged. The Iraqi-American nonprofit partnership, Friends of Democracy, set up a central weblog collecting reports from correspondents all over Iraq. There were audio and text reports, with photos, from many different locations, producing an effect something like a news wire staffed by avid...

The poster went on to complain some more about how much this has cost our country’s reputation and continued to spout things such as “I can’t think of a single cause outside of the borders of my country that would be worth destroying my country for. And that’s what has happened, I don’t care how happy the Iraqis are.” And that, my friend, is why I will never be a liberal. I do not value my reputation higher than my values. I am not so selfish as to think that our country’s reputation or financial prosperity is more important that...

I've just started a blog, and I had e-mailed to me a 30 second TV commercial from a political campaign a few years back, that's suddenly become timely. How can I post it???

This is for any of you who think Noam Chomsky is a bit of a tool. Have you ever seen his atrocious blogs? The best part is when he compares people who are upset with the actions of the insurgents to Nazi and Stalin sympathizers. Yep. Here's my take on Nim Chimsky and his two terrible blogs: Noam Chomsky, Bloggin' Fool

I had a rare moment- I had a thought - in this article (see link below fron Denver Post) it appeared it was more of the blah blah blah about how we are wrecking the Grand Canyon with the dam, and there are to many people and the the beaches are all getting washed away -

Be careful what you blog. It could get you fired. Peter Whitney said Wells Fargo dismissed him after co-workers discovered his online journal. Delta Airlines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti said she got the boot for hers. Even a staffer at Friendster, the social networking site in Mountain View that encourages users to post detailed personal information about themselves online, said she was fired for her blog. With blogging going mainstream and millions of Americans logging details of their everyday lives, including work, a growing number of people are getting into hot water for being too candid about their jobs. Some...

When I telephoned a man named Ali Fadhil in Baghdad last week, I wondered who might answer. A C.I.A. operative? An American posing as an Iraqi? Someone paid by the Defense Department to support the war? Or simply an Iraqi with some mixed feelings about the American presence in Iraq? Until he picked up the phone, he was just a ghost on the Internet. The mystery began last month when I went online to see what Iraqis think about the war and the Jan. 30 national election. I stumbled into an ideological snake pit. Out of a list of 28...

A pro-US weblog by three Iraqi brothers has become the unlikely setting for a huge web spat after conspiracy theorists alleged it was a fake. Iraq the Model, a weblog detailing the more positive aspects of the US-led occupation of the country, is one of the most popular Iraq sites on the web. But some anti-war activists said it was a CIA-sponsored propaganda tool. The brothers strongly denied the claims, but the row has led to severe ructions in the online Iraq community. 'Positive message' The blog, written by Baghdad-based brothers Mohammed and Omar, who are dentists, and doctor Ali,...