The Blogosphere’s Smaller Stars [Buckhead and TankerKC mentioned]

NRO ^ | December 20, 2004 | By La Shawn Barber

[SittinYonder]

Thought you'd like this one

[Tribune7]

At least one journalist seems to agree. Chris Satullo, editorial-page editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, recognizes the role of bloggers but stressed that journalists are still necessary.

< Bloggers are journalists unlike, say, Inquirer editors.

[xJones]

He said ABC News falsely concluded that posters on FreeRepublic.com — the conservative news forum where the hoax idea germinated — were the forgers of the documents.

LOL, ABC is as stupid as CBS!

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post Jim.
Thanks for what you have created Jim.

[Red Badger]

journalistic-style investigations

S/B as journalist-SHOULD BE-style investigations !!!!!!!!!!

[You Dirty Rats]

Jim,

The media continues to miss part of the story. Please look at the posting below, which shows that TankerKC posted suspicions RIGHT DURING THE BROADCAST!! Note the time was 8:19pm EDT, not Pacific Time. TankerKC saw the memo and knew right away it look like BS. Buckhead then did the research and made the case.

The fraud was so obvious that Freepers were on it while the broadcast was still running. CBS HAD to know within 48 Hours at the most that the memo was bogus, yet they continued to defend it. THAT is the real story!

THE MOTHER OF ALL POSTINGS:

To: Howlin
WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN!
They are not in the style that we used when I came in to the USAF. They looked like the style and format we started using about 12 years ago (1992). Our signature blocks were left justified, now they are rigth of center...like the ones they just showed.

Can we get a copy of those memos?


107 posted on 09/08/2004 8:19:00 PM EDT by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
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[Red Badger]

Jim Robinson is the Patrick Henry of our time.......

[sauropod]

read later

[sine_nomine]

Hats off to Jim Robinson, the Ur-Blogger. You got this going years ago and now the conservatives are rapidly communicating with each other and with the world. Thanks, Jim.

[codyjacksmom]

Wow! Someone finally got it right and called FR a forum instead of a blog. Cool.

[headsonpikes]

"The truth shall make you free."

Thanks for all you've made possible, Jim!

Merry Christmas.

[gemadness]

I think it's about time that they do a report on all these blogs being put out from pro-democracy Iraqis.

I've seen a number of good ones like democracyiniraq.blogspot.com, iraqthemodel.com, among others.

These are valuable, they contradict all the negativity we get out of the news 24/7

[Patterico]

Actually, the language quoted in the article is from a post of mine, and it's a little sloppy. I was refuting the theory that Buckhead expressed his detailed conclusions about the documents during the program. His opinions came a couple of hours after the program, as my post details. (My post also has the first public comments by Buckhead other than on FreeRepublic.com.)

But I was fully aware that TankerKC (not "TankerC" as the article mistakenly calls him) had expressed generalized doubts about the documents during the program. I made that point clear in another post, in which I interviewed TankerKC. That post has a more detailed description of the evolution of the controversy here on FreeRepublic.com.

In any event, thanks for posting the article, and once again, my hat is off to the Freepers who first raised doubts about the documents. It was a landmark event in the history of interactions between the internet and Big Media -- and it no doubt brought down Dan Rather's career early.

[Patterico]

I think it's about time that they do a report on all these blogs being put out from pro-democracy Iraqis.

I agree. I had the privilege of meeting Omar and Mohammed from Iraq the Model (I described the meeting here) and it was an experience I'll remember all my life.

Someone from the L.A. Times interviewed them that same night -- but the interview never ran. Too positive a story, I guess.

[Travis McGee]

The "secondary blogs" just picked up the scoops they found here on the FReep, and passed them along as their own.

But that's okay. We don't mind. Goes with the territory.

[Patterico]

The "secondary blogs" just picked up the scoops they found here on the FReep, and passed them along as their own.

You probably didn't mean any offense, but I resent that if it's directed towards me. I sure did pick up scoops from this forum, but didn't pass them off as my own. The NPR/Media Matters post came from several sources: a reader of mine heard the NPR story, I found the Media Matters story, and I told Buckhead about both. He told me why they had gotten the timing wrong, but was reticent about being quoted. When I first did the post, he had not given me permission to quote him; in the update, he did.

I always attribute things I get from other places, unless I have an agreement with the source not to disclose their identity. In all my posts where I picked things up from Freepers, I sourced them unless they had asked me not to.

[Patterico]

I don't mean to sound harsh, but you have to understand that accusing people of ripping off others' observations is considered an attack on our integrity. My integrity is everything and I can't have people getting the wrong impression.

[Travis McGee]

I don't even know who you are, or what secondary forums you represent. Don't take offense, but most of us don't know you either.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this Jim. It was not just Blather who ended up as a big loser this past year. Thanks to Free Republic and conservative blogs, ABCNNBCBS took a potentially lethal blow this year.

Now we are doing the same thing with the liars/spinners suffering from Rummy Phobia.

Merry Christmas Jim.