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Beware the host of babbling bloggers
Columbus Dispatch ^ | December 29, 2005 | Kathleen Parker

Posted on 12/31/2005 6:38:42 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye

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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 can’t silence them [bloggers], but for civilization’s sake and the integrity of information by which we all live or die, we can and should ignore them.

Have at it.

1 posted on 12/31/2005 6:38:43 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Loyal Buckeye

April Fool's Day isn't until April.


2 posted on 12/31/2005 6:39:57 AM PST by Crawdad (So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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To: Loyal Buckeye

More babbling by people who babble for a living. I'd suggest that she get some people on the record to support her wishes.


3 posted on 12/31/2005 6:40:47 AM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

Another frustrated 'J' School graduate.


4 posted on 12/31/2005 6:41:33 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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"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.


5 posted on 12/31/2005 6:42:29 AM PST by Crawdad (So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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"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.


6 posted on 12/31/2005 6:44:51 AM PST by sgtyork (If Osamma calls someone in the US, should the NSA hang up?)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

I guess Kathleen Parker does not like competition.

But loves people like DanRather and MaryApes.


7 posted on 12/31/2005 6:45:06 AM PST by conservative barking moonbat
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To: Loyal Buckeye
>Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.

And look where it got em.

8 posted on 12/31/2005 6:45:18 AM PST by hemogoblin
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" I’m reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding’s 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


9 posted on 12/31/2005 6:45:27 AM PST by Brooklyn Kid (What's it to ya? ) ((....west of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar.................))
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To: Loyal Buckeye
She must be friends with Mapes.

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!

10 posted on 12/31/2005 6:46:52 AM PST by mosquitobite (As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.)
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The LSM is on the offensive towards the new media.

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.

11 posted on 12/31/2005 6:47:21 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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Better put some ice on that, Kathleen.


12 posted on 12/31/2005 6:47:26 AM PST by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

Beware the babbling Kathleen Parker


13 posted on 12/31/2005 6:48:35 AM PST by i_dont_chat (Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers. [Stolen from Mark Steyn].)
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"I mean no disrespect to the many brilliant people out there – professors, lawyers, doctors, philosophers, scientists and journalists who also happen to blog. But we should beware and resist the rest of the egogratifying rabble who contribute only snark, sass and destruction."

That's the first time I've seen them actually admit it in print....It's them,(the intellectuals), against us. Or Blue vs Red, as the more common term now....Let's finally have that fight!
14 posted on 12/31/2005 6:51:04 AM PST by whitehair1961
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To: Loyal Buckeye
Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.

I think she meant "left".

15 posted on 12/31/2005 6:53:23 AM PST by Jim_Curtis
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Author can be reached at:

kparker@kparker.com


16 posted on 12/31/2005 6:53:42 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Loyal Buckeye

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 ;-)


17 posted on 12/31/2005 6:54:40 AM PST by guinness4strength
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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.


18 posted on 12/31/2005 6:59:24 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Loyal Buckeye
Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.

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.

19 posted on 12/31/2005 7:02:39 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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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.

I guess he's talking about those alternative-universe newspapers. You know, not the kind we have here in this universe.

20 posted on 12/31/2005 7:04:29 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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