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LA TIMES: No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players (FreeRepublic.Com & Buckhead Mentioned!)
The LA Times ^ | Sept. 12, 2004 | Peter Wallsten

Posted on 09/12/2004 2:43:11 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

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To: mitch5501

No thread posted that is not vetted and sourced, if posts are proven false, we ourselves zot them instantly.

Freepers and RW bloggers know the value of truth and veracity, dems and MSM have long since abandoned such ideals.


301 posted on 09/12/2004 11:12:37 AM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: kcvl

Thanks kc. Bookmarked that one. MRN


302 posted on 09/12/2004 11:20:16 AM PDT by mississippi red-neck
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To: Buckhead
Yes, I do live on the East coast.

In Georgia maybe?

303 posted on 09/12/2004 11:26:27 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: IndyTiger
"FR has become my first place on the web to go each time I log on."

There are other places? When did this happen?

304 posted on 09/12/2004 11:31:35 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: West Coast Conservative

bttt!


305 posted on 09/12/2004 11:34:49 AM PDT by Admin Moderator (<---Rogue Moderator, so WATCH OUT!!)
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To: West Coast Conservative
This was the first time, some said, that the Web logs were engaging in their own form of investigative journalism — and readers, they warned, should be cautious.

The first time? FReepers having been keeping the MSM honest for over seven years.

"The mainstream press is having to follow them," said Jeffrey Seglin, a professor at Emerson College in Boston. "The fear I have is: How do you know who's doing the Web logs?

We are no more anonymous than the people who write for the newspapers but Jeffrey Seglin doesn't seem to be complaining about them. I guess he prefers the blow-dried look of a television anchor for his daily intake of news.

"And what happens when this stuff gets into the mainstream, and it eventually turns out that the '60 Minutes' documents were perfectly legitimate, but because there's been so much reporting about what's being reported, it has already taken on a life of its own?"

The same thing that's been happening for the past 50 years when the MSM makes a mistake and their correction in the last 30 seconds of a broadcast goes unnoticed by the public.

306 posted on 09/12/2004 11:34:55 AM PDT by MrConfettiMan
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To: RichardW
The total number of employed reporters in the US is about 66,000, of which about 25% (or 16K) worked in radio or TV.

How many full-time reporters does CBS employ? A few hundred? They don't realize that FR, in a very distributed and part time basis, has far more investigative person-hours per week contributing than CBS, NBC, and ABC put together

307 posted on 09/12/2004 11:37:32 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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To: West Coast Conservative; carlo3b; stanz; christie
But apparently the entire thing was cooked up by a couple of amateurs on Free Republic.

I'll have them know I'm a professional amateur!!! HMPH!!!

Carlo, got any Main Stream Media Cooked Goose leftovers?? They need some to go with their whine.

308 posted on 09/12/2004 11:39:12 AM PDT by jellybean (Support Swift Boat Veterans For Truth)
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To: muawiyah
I challenge the Freepers to expose the WMD Theory, there is such an incredible knowledge base here and we all know that they are out there.....where are they. Freeper Challenge....throwing it up in the air.
309 posted on 09/12/2004 11:42:21 AM PDT by marmar (Faith is a beautiful thing.....)
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To: harrycarey
From the article: "But how do we know Buckhead is really not Karl Rove…. "

Buckhead could very well be Karl Rove and "he" could be Barbara Bush or Queen Elizabeth II for all we know.

The bottom line, however, was that Buckhead's contribution had nothing to do with spin. Buckhead's contribution was providing cold, hard technological facts about a rather obscure topic, namely,1970's typing technology.

When the Mainstream Media journalists speak of "amateurs" on FreeRepublic, they should consider that fact that, for any particular topic that they choose to write about, they are the ones that are rank amateurs in comparison to FreeRepublic as a whole.

On the other hand, on any given topic, be it computer science, typing, aviation, any branch of the military services, medicine, law, engineering, you name it, FreeRepublic can come up with a dozen members who have been working in those fields for decades.

No human being in the world, especially a reporter, is ever going to have a greater breath of knowledge than the FreeRepublic collective.

Resistance is futile.

310 posted on 09/12/2004 11:43:28 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: West Coast Conservative
LA TIMES: No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players (FreeRepublic.Com & Buckhead Mentioned!)

Radio-show host Hugh Hewitt said he got interviewed by the LA Times about this last Friday
(or Thursday).
311 posted on 09/12/2004 11:45:43 AM PDT by VOA
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To: CaptRon
"Maybe this will prompt someone in the MSM to do a 'fair and balanced' report on FR"

Quick! Somebody notify Dan Rather. < /sarcasm >

312 posted on 09/12/2004 11:45:54 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: truthandlife
"The internet is crushing the leftist media and will continue to do so as long as we have the freedom to express our views."

Which is why Hillary wants to install a gatekeeper on the internet. Heaven help us if she ever gets the chance.

313 posted on 09/12/2004 11:48:05 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: Buckhead
"... Buckhead refuses to further identify himself, other than dropping hints that he is a male who lives on the East Coast."

Good show.

314 posted on 09/12/2004 11:49:31 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi)
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To: Wormwood
"While this has been a good couple of days for us, I would rather see Kerry back on the defensive."

LOL! That gives me an image of Kerry looking like a cartoon mouse that has just temporarily escaped the cat, sitting breathless against the wall with sweat pouring off of him, and wiping his brow, going "whew!" but the cat is about to smoke him out again.

315 posted on 09/12/2004 11:51:22 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: Mo1
Gee .. looks like they just insulted us

When ti comes from the MSM and the likes of the LA Times the worst the insult the higher the compliment.

Liberals are terrified at the thought of being held accountable for anything they say or do.With the NewMedia they feel their power over the unwashed masses slipping .

They can no longer force feed the people with their yellow journalistic propaganda. A crack has formed in the base of their ivory towers.

It's not the fantasies and speculations found in the Newmedia that frightens them, rather, [pun intended] it's the gems of real truth.

Can't you just smell the fear.

316 posted on 09/12/2004 11:52:50 AM PDT by mississippi red-neck
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To: Howlin
Just went to the Corn Ball System link in your #54 post.

Did anyone read the "editors note" at the beginning?

Those "people" sure are digging a DEEP hole to try to save Dan's arse!

317 posted on 09/12/2004 11:55:03 AM PDT by Budge (<><)
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To: longtermmemmory; Jim Robinson
"Yes they do list false FR accounts that can be used to get onto FR without having an account!

So we may actually have generic FReepers....and trolls?

318 posted on 09/12/2004 11:57:41 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: sweetliberty

I doubt that Dan has ever been on the Internet (or even heard of it for that matter).


319 posted on 09/12/2004 12:02:51 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: sweetliberty
"While this has been a good couple of days for us, I would rather see Kerry back on the defensive."

Yuck, yuck.

You don't win games playing on the defensive.

Thought Kerry was a great sportsman.

320 posted on 09/12/2004 12:06:55 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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