CBS BLASTS THE BLOGS

CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | NOVEMBER 12, 2004 | NOEL SHEPPARD

[Texas Songwriter]

Misspelled in post 39. I hate it when that happens. Sory

[Captain Peter Blood]

Engberg is so far out of what is now going on that his opinion is really not worth much.
I wonder if this guy even knows how to send e-mail much less what really goes on in the Blogsphere.
Just another Liberal Media Leftist that can't believe that the MSM no longer controls what people hear and see.
These people live in isolated bubbles as Goldberg says and really know nothing of what really goes in the rest of the country and really don't care to.
Engberg just proves he is really out of touch and I say stay retired and crawl back under your rock.

[Peter W. Kessler]

I believe King George had similar feelings for a group of rabble rousers in the Colonies.

[airborne]

OK, you caught me. I read the whole thing. It was nonsense.

This was particularly silly - "...the chances of the bloggers replacing mainstream journalism are about as good as the parasite replacing the dog it fastens on."

The liberal leftists are all in a severe state of denial. I love it!

[ladyinred]

I hate to tell this idiot this, but I also worked on my high school newspaper and took Journalism, and what he and CBS and most of the press today are doing is NOT Journalism! My high school paper may have had a much smaller circulation, but we knew the difference between hard news and editorials, the truth and propaganda.

[narby]

''As a retired mainstream media ('MSM') journalist--and thus a double-dinosaur ...

Read

Old Media

[No Blue States]

As amazing as it might seem, a retired correspondent for CBS News recently wrote an op-ed for his previous employer wherein he suggested that the worst news coverage of an election in history was likely performed by America’s bloggers this past November 2.

Let me remind them who had the worst election coverage:

[AmericanVictory]

I think Mr. Enigbrag is right. We are not urinalists and all and he clearly is.

[muawiyah]

Enbergb is probably an AlQaida supporter as well.

[Enterprise]

I'll try to word this a different way, although I know I am repeating what others have said. Being the only game in town, the Old Media pretty much had it their way for decades. They were the ones who were watched and trusted by the masses. And they were the ones who were in constant contact with the power elite in Washington D.C. This helped make the media elite a VERY IMPORTANT part of political life and political survival, because they could make or break any given politician. They could make people look good, or make them look bad, and when they made someone look bad, there was little he could do about it. After all, the media always had the last word and they didn't have to correct errors or omissions if they didn't want to.

But - something has changed and Old Media doesn't like it, and can't quite accept it. The politicians in Washington D.C. generally don't need them anymore. It's an old story of the businessman, the middleman, and the customer. For a long time, the businessman (the politicians) had to have the cooperation of the middleman (the OM) to get their message out to the customers (the people). But it was a rigged system, with the liberal middlemen cooperating with the Democrat politicians to slant the message to the people in favor of the Democrats. But now, the politicians are able to bypass the middleman and go directly to the people with their words and messages not slanted or skewed. We can see for ourselves what they wanted us to know and make our own judgements. Or, if something doesn't sound quite right, we can ask the questions of liberal politicians that liberal media punks don't dare ask. In spite of the sweeping changes in communications, Old Media thinks it is still needed, and thinks it is still somehow important. It isn't - and THAT is what they are having trouble coming to terms with.

Old Media is a buggy whip manufacturer surrounded by the blogosphere.

[Brilliant]

That's like the pot calling the kettle black.

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

[weegee]

Buggy whip media BUMP.

Hard to believe there is still daily private delivery of newspapers when milkmen and doctors gave up house visits long ago.

And when they do bring that newspaper to your door, it contains stories that are 8-36 hours old. "Leading information source"? Please, I wasn't born yesterday.

[Gondring]

Care to post your personal information to the forum?

What, chicken?

[Gondring]

The stories might have a lag time over television and other media, but a good local paper can provide details and breadth of coverage that is relevant in a way national media can't. That's why I make it a point to support good local newspapers, which often are more fair than the national media or larger papers.

Disclosure: I used to be the editor of a local newspaper. (See, we ain't all bad guys! BTW, I know there are other FReepers who are also editors, and I know they'd love your support in staving off the larger, liberal papers!) :-)

[Gondring]

That needs a barf alert!

[Gibtx]

no one would do that who has ever been on the net...

[Lucky Lyn]

"They are not going to stop the bloggers. Intelligent people will always look for alternate sources of news..now that there is some. I am SICK of being spoon feed by these Neanderthals and I won't take it anymore! Now that's progressive for ya".

That reminds me, did Rather ever call the election for Bush yet?

[BJungNan]

Seems to me CBS is in no position to be critcizing anyone. But perhaps it is just a case of hurt feelings on their part.

[BJungNan]

That's like the pot calling the kettle black.

No, that is not it at all. CBS is a pot alright but there is nothing wrong with the FR kettle.