Posted on 12/31/2005 6:38:42 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
Say what you will about the mainstream media, but no industry agonizes more about how to improve its product, police its members and better serve its communities. Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.
We cant silence them [bloggers], but for civilizations sake and the integrity of information by which we all live or die, we can and should ignore them.
Have at it.
April Fool's Day isn't until April.
More babbling by people who babble for a living. I'd suggest that she get some people on the record to support her wishes.
Another frustrated 'J' School graduate.
"I mean no disrespect to the many brilliant people out there professors, lawyers, doctors, philosophers, scientists and journalists who also happen to blog."
Good. We have all of those here ar FR.
"I mean no disrespect to the many brilliant people out there professors, lawyers, doctors, philosophers, scientists and journalists who also happen to blog."
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We truly do mean disrespect to the many average intellects, schooled for 4 long years in the challenging liberal j-school environment, who can't get simple facts right.
I guess Kathleen Parker does not like competition.
But loves people like DanRather and MaryApes.
And look where it got em.
" Im reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Goldings Lord of the Flies. Without adult supervision, they organize themselves into rival tribes, learn to hunt and kill, and eventually become murderous barbarians in the absence of a civilizing structure. "
Sounds like she's been to DU
How about THIS Ms Parker, if you GD journalists are so GOOD at what you do, why do us "amatuer" bloggers SCARE YOU TO DEATH?
If you do the work a jounalist is SUPPOSED to do, ie present us the facts, well researched, we'll have nothing to pick apart now will we. ;) Have a good day!
There's no place for them to run or hide. They know their time is short. Their credibility is in flames and the new media is like a host of ants picking away at a rotten piece of fruit.
The new media is freedom as our founders envisioned it. A million voices speaking their own truth, not corporate media conglomerates driven by their particular agendas, monopolizing the voice of the people into a neatly packaged product.
Say what you will about the new media. It is the future, unless the forces of evil can extinguish the flame of freedom that drives it.
Better put some ice on that, Kathleen.
Beware the babbling Kathleen Parker
I think she meant "left".
Author can be reached at:
kparker@kparker.com
she's worried because bloggers are making traditional columnists more irrelevant every day. She actually makes me want to start my own blog, thanks Ms. Parker ;-)
Kathleen Parker has sure changed her tune from a year ago. Sounds like Hitlery's goons paid Ms. Parker a visit...
http://www.michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/114/5124
All of which brings me to my premise that the blogosphere isn't just a challenge to journalism in its currently stagnant state, but a potential boon to problem-solving of a higher order. The beauty of the blogosphere is that it is self-igniting, self-propelling and self-selecting, a sort of intellectual ecosystem wherein the best specimens from various disciplines descend from the ethers, converge on an issue and apply their unique talents.
Though virtually newborn, the blogosphere has blossomed exponentially in a matter of Earth-time seconds, from a few random voices to a mighty and diverse chorus of sometimes spectacular talent. Bloggers are the Big Bang of the Information Age.
Parker is usually pretty good. Maybe she got hit in the head.
*Every* news story I've ever had intimate knowledge of had some fact wrong. Be it dates, names, actions, etc., something in the article was wrong.
I guess he's talking about those alternative-universe newspapers. You know, not the kind we have here in this universe.
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