OPEN LETTER TO THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA: We are NOT Amateurs and we are going to kick your butts.

[Budge]

WOW!! WTG PD!

[Sacajaweau]

Pretty good vet. I'll tell you what I've been hearing more and more. "I don't watch the news anymore" except for Fox.

Now, these are not close companions, they are just ordinary people who I converse with in the course of my work.

[PhilipFreneau]

Excellent!

[tet68]

You tell 'em bub!

They are scared to death but like the junkie, just can't stop.

[michaelt]

Great piece. Thanks for writing it.

Pukin Dog bump.

[Free Trapper]

Thanks,that was good. :)

[spodefly]

BTTT

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

OK (no comment)

Rails pass, Pukin Dog. Or as our Air Force brothers would say, "Shack!"

[swilhelm73]

FR and the blogosphere are bringing the wonders of decentralized decision making to the media.

Before, a few organizations could control the media as an oligopoly. They may not have been a monopoly per se, but with the same political views and emersed in the same culture the result was almost the same. But now there are hundreds of independent decision makers judging stories.

These new newshounds are every bit as bound by their own biases as the old guard, but there are so many of them, approaching the news from every possible angle, that in the end the decision to cover a story centers around its objective value.

This, BTW, is also, basically, why capitalism is a superior economic system to socialism.

[Alas Babylon!]

Very good! You expressed my sentiments to a T. I don't think they're going to read it, and if they do, they'll arrogantly smirk at it. So.....

Let's kick their ASSES!!!!!!

[Drango]

Bump for a good rant...

Do we hae to report what we're wearing?.....OK I'm not wearin' anything. What? Yes dear..I'd like another glass of scotch.

[Pukin Dog]

I am. I try to catch it whenever it is on.

[Don Corleone]

This is the media's last chance. Truly, with the exception of a few people who are in their 70's, I don't know anyone who gets their news from Old Media. They are so yesterday.

Back off there matey. I'm in my 70's and have been aware of the MSM bias since Cronkite.

[zzen01]

I think that "Fox News Watch" was filmed just as the W Guard Forgery story was impacting. It looked to be filmed maybe Thurs or Fri.

[blue-duncan]

No, no, we are amateurs. That's why the trees don't hinder us from seeing the forest. We are not jaded by ego, self aggrandizement or self importance and it is still the love of the game, not the prestige of the position that keeps us in our pajamas making sure the facts correspond with reality, truth. We are amateurs, really.

[lionstar]

"We have writers, poets, engineers, aviators, artists, journalists(they keep that on the down-low), historians, teachers, politicians, current and former members of all services of the military"

Let's not forget us Filmmakers! Yes a conservative filmmaker, We are around! lol!!

Great Post Dog!!!

[mylife]

Huzzah! You just made Zell Miller smile!

Way to go Pukin Dog!

[McGavin999]

Excellent rant Pukin Dog. They are on their last legs and we're kicking them out from under them faster than they can manuver. Their only chance is to become real journalists and report the facts, just the fact, like journalists USED to do.

Frankly, there is nothing I enjoy more then reading a well written article crafted by a real wordsmith. Other than Styne, I haven't seen one of those in a long, long time.

[arasina]

Man, you do an excellent job of "just venting." This is an OUTSTANDING editorial, Pukin Dog. I'm going to read it several times (and pass it along to friends) because it just feels so darned good to see the words we all know are true being expressed so well.

(Is the "I'm Pukin Dog" the tag for your television standup?)