Posted on 08/08/2008 12:51:45 PM PDT by RogerFGay
Well then, you go away and I’ll let you know if I miss you...
Yeah, right.
They can put Beetle Bailey on-line too, you know.
With a BIG smile on our faces...
“...employing professional journalists...”
It all depends on what the meaning of “professional” is...
....asserts that the media exists for "a genuine, altruistic desire for an educated citizenry"
We won’t miss the liberal media when it’s gone. LOL!
If there is a market demand for the old media after it dies, it will then be revived.
Old media flourished because money and influence could be gained by being a publisher.
Old media is not some magic sacred cow, despite their incessant mooing to the contrary.
Is this really a bad thing? I live in Arizona. It drives me crazy when the newsies tell me that they are having a thunderstorm in Maine, Washington and Oahu or that some woman living in Atlanta, Georgia has 150 cats living with her in her mobile home. There is such as thing as TOO MUCH information.
Well, I too can write a pecan to how great the media is. I missed you long ago when you eschewed any original thinking at penalty of your job and started parroting any old press release any old press rep hack was willing to copy and place in your hand.
“the media exists for “a genuine, altruistic desire for an educated citizenry””
Wow.....violent, projectile barf alert!
Just penetrating this filthy world marks an amazing accomplishment for Schwartz: Somehow, this established New York City journalist gained the trust of cynical, nihilistic misanthropes who, by their own professed creed, don't trust anyone. They met him, in the flesh, showed him where they live and even let him watch as they went about their trolling.
Yes, it's SOOO difficult, when any idiot with an internet connection can go to Encyclopedia Dramatica and read about every significant act of trolling ever committed, with docs on a lot of the trolls.
You can't miss something that doesn't exist.
Wrong. Their primary interest is in maximizing the number of readers so that they can command higher advertising rates. They're not in the business, nor are they in the business of indoctrination; they're in the business of selling audiences. Unfortunately most media outlets take the easy route of building audiences by pandering to people's worst instincts.
Yeah, and likewise those important stories that conflict with the media's agenda can be BURIED DEEP by those "deep-pocketed traditional media organizations."
Anyone else want to point out to Mr Kay that it was the tabloid media and blogosphere that broke the Edwards affair story, and not the “old media?”
Yeah, but can you candy a pecan?
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...waiting...
I don’t think I agree with you. The media SHOULD be interested in making money. In the old days it was making money vs. being honest. But this post-Vietnam generation of media folks are so absolutely dipped in ideology that they put it before their own survival.
In part, it’s because they move in circles of same-thinking leftists. They don’t even KNOW anybody who voted for Bush. So they just assume that all their readers want to be brainwashed along the same lines that they have been brainwashed. They don’t know any better.
I don’t catch it now, so how the hell am I gonna miss it when it’s gone?
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