Blogs: New Medium, Old Politics

CBS ^ | Dec. 8, 2004 | David Paul Kuhn

[swilhelm73]

Or to summarize...The first ammendment is for we, not thee. Censors arrest those non-Leftist bloggers!

[gov_bean_ counter]

And from this we are to believe that Tiny Tom didn't have the same dynamic at work for him?

[umgud]

While many are must-reads for political junkies, are some Internet blogs also being used as proxies for campaigns? In the nation’s hottest Senate race, this past year, the answer was yes.

Two words; Dan Rather

[wvobiwan]

CBS retaliation for RatherGate. The liberal media will attempt to paint all Internet news as unreliable and suspect. The next time they choose to ignore a story like the SwiftVets, and promote stories like the TANG fraud, and bloggers flay them for it, they will of course blame the bloggers for being partisan, and unreliable.

[Trippin]

This is rich, coming from CBS. They are using blogs themselves to further an agenda :

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=13877_CBS_Recruiting_Anti-War_Bloggers

How does CBS explain that?

[Eva]

I was about to post a similar thought, freedom for me but not for thee, typical leftist thought pattern.

[ken5050]

FYI..very interesting..

[ken5050]

Anyone know if any blogger has ever been sued for libel?

[Trippin]

"The problem is when a blog pretends to hold neutrality but is actually partisan."

OK, what comic wrote this article? 'Fess up wil you. I think the author has his blogs confused with the mainstraem media.

[peacethroughstrength]

Put a suit, a $1000 blow dried hair cut,some pancake & rouge on them and prop 'em up in front of a camera (don't forget the minor in Sociology), THEN, they will be respectable!!!

[mdittmar]

Right you are,the old media screams about freedom of the press,as long as they're the only ones who own a press.

They're influence on trying to form public opinion is slipping away and their true agenda will become more and more apparent.

The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them.
PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON,letter to Judge John Tyler, June 28, 1804

[Jabba the Nutt]

It is so comforting that CBS is on the case with all of its investigative resources to uncover how media bias is used to affect elections and subvert democratic decisions. They have alot of experience in this area.

It is additionally heartwarming that CBS has discovered Red State America, which South Dakota could be a model for. I just wonder where CBS has been for the past 18 or more years, when the Souix Falls Argus Leader has had Daschle college friend David Kranz as it's top political reporter. The Argus Leader has been the big foot media of South Dakota with all the state's smaller papers and media outlets following its lead.

Below I've excerpted just a couple articles on this bias, which I discovered after intensive investigative research, say 3 minutes using Google, because I remembered an article about this bias in reading about the Daschle v Thune campaign last summer.

Clearly, CBS just cannot stand it, that non-liberals are now getting their message out and having an impact. One funny thing I found out, is that Daschle had 515 campaign staffers to run his campaign. Thune had 18 and the GOP had 70. Ignored by SeeBS.

Clearly, the bias at the Argus Leader is institutional. The people making the decisions about story placement and headline writing know that what they do has a major impact on public opinion in South Dakota.

Somehow, their decisions almost always cut in favor of Tom Daschle. Who makes these decisions? The editors. Who are the editors? The executive editor is Randell Beck, but the executive editor is more involved with the long-range visions and goals of the newspaper, and has less to do with the day-to-day decision-making. The managing editor and the assistant editor are involved in the day-to-day decisionmaking on things like story placement and headline writing.

Interestingly, the assistant editor of the Argus Leader is a fellow by the name of Patrick Lalley, who in the early 1990's was the editor of the now defunct Sioux Falls Tempest, a free alternative weekly. I believe Lalley may have even founded the Tempest. The Tempest was known as the Sioux Falls version of the Village Voice, and advocated issues from a far-left perspective. There's certainly nothing wrong with advocating left-wing views, but there is something wrong with advocating left-wing views under the cloak of "objectivity."

I'll be looking up old copies of the Tempest in the coming weeks to investigate whether Lalley has left a paper trail that might explain what's behind the institutional bias at the Argus Leader.

More at the link: http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_dakota_politics/2004/week18/

MORE KRANZ/ARGUS BIAS
EXPOSEDwww.southdakotapolitics.blogspot.com

Sunday, August 17, 2003

KRANZ WATCH: Today's edition of the Chicago Sun-Times contains Bob Novak's report on Tom Daschle's claiming of the "homestead deduction" for his $1.9 million home in Washington, a tax exemption that is available only to those who list their home as their "principal" residence. Novak also published the same report yesterday on townhall.com. Novak's report followed up Jeff Gannon's scoop.

In his Sunday column today, David Kranz, the dean of South Dakota political reporters, ignores this news item regarding Tom Daschle, but does manage to plug Tom Daschle's new book, "Like No Other Time," due out this fall.

David Kranz's pro-Daschle bias, despite holding himself out as an objective observer of South Dakota politics, has long been a topic on this blog.

More at the link: http://www.sdakotagop.com/newsdetail.asp?iNewsID=189

[Howlin]

But where journalists' careers may be broken on ethics violations, bloggers are writing in the Wild West of cyberspace. There remains no code of ethics, or even an employer, to enforce any standard.

HAHAHAHA......oh my sides hurt from laughing!

CBS got burned and, if you ask me, they're going after the internet now.

[capydick]

Hypothetically, if The Washington Post discovered that The New York Times had a reporter being paid by the Bush campaign it would report it. If proven, the suspect reporter would be fired and likely never work in mainstream journalism again.

Only true for this hypothetical, one against President Bush. Case in point - Paul Begala. He remained on the Kerry payroll and broadcasted his propoganda while collecting a paycheck from CNN.

Consistency is not a liberal strong point.

[Howlin]

the old media screams about freedom of the press,as long as they're the only ones who own a press.

Exactly! You are so right.

“The question is: What are the appropriate regulations on the Internet?" asked Kathleen Jamieson, an expert on political communication and dean of the Annenberg School for Communications. “It’s evolved into an area that we need to do more thinking about it.

Leave us the hell alone; we'll police ourselves!

[FederalistVet]

As they lose more and more of their power they will only become more extreme. Since most papers only allow letters to the editor from the same person to be published only once a month, where do they expect the people to take the debate?

[gov_bean_ counter]

There remains no code of ethics, or even an employer, to enforce any standard.

The writer of this is a fool. Every major item on FR gets run through a filter by many posters who have various experiences and points of view.

[weegee]

At minimum, the role of blogs in the Daschle-Thune race is a telling harbinger for 2006 and 2008. Some blogs could become new vehicles for the old political dirty tricks.

Like all media, blogs hold the potential for abuse. Experts point out that blogs' unregulated status makes them particularly attractive outlets for political attack.

As if the MSM with Fahrenheit 9/11 in theaters (and the media hype AROUND the release of the film) and Rock The Vote's phoney DRAFT scare were any more legitimate because they went through traditional media.

Pbbbbbbbbbtttt. Big raspberry award.

[goldstategop]

But.... but... but CBS naturally does not engage in politically motivated attacks or disseminate known forgeries on the air. <sarcasm Its all the bloggers' especially that damn Buckhead's fault for upsetting the status quo ante.

[goldstategop]

LOLOLOLOL. We Pajamahadeen don't have any professional society or code of ethics? CBS had em both and still ended up with egg on its face!