Posted on 02/15/2005 5:10:24 AM PST by FlyLow
Real fear is mixing with snarky disdain in the "mainstream" media's attitude toward web loggers in the wake of the resignation last Friday of Eason Jordan as CNN's top news executive.
"Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters," said the headline in the New York Times Monday, the first time many of the newspaper's readers were made aware of a controversy which had been roiling for nearly two weeks.
"The New York Times media beat reporters got beaten badly on the Eason Jordan story — by (gasp!) web logs and cable news — and so how do they react? By catching their readers up on what they missed? Of course not. They react by lashing out at web logs," said Jeff Jarvis, whose views were misrepresented in the Times' story.
Web loggers who criticized Jordan are "sons of Sen. McCarthy," said Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the World Editors Forum. "It is very worrying to see this marriage between self-proclaimed citizens' media and mainstream journalists' scalp hunters," he said.
"The salivating morons who make up the lynch mob prevail," said Steve Lovelady, who edits the web site of the Columbia Journalism Review. For those of you unfamiliar with the controversy — that is to say, for those of you who get your news from the "mainstream" media — in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Jan. 27, Jordan said the U.S. military was deliberately killing journalists in Iraq. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), a fellow panelist, demanded proof, which Jordan couldn't supply.
Miami businessman Rony Abovitz, who was in attendance, reported on what Jordan said in his web log. This was read by big foot bloggers Hugh Hewitt, Ed Morrissey (Captains Quarters), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and the gang at Power Line, who expressed outrage.
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Buh bye!
We feel about bloggers the way Custer must have felt when he charged that village at the Little Big Horn, and discovered it was much, much bigger than he'd imagined it to be. The bloggers' wigwam is large, and growing. There is plenty of room on the lodgepole for more scalps.
hehehe You gotta love this man's sense of humor
*sharpens his scalping knife*
Right. It's been pretty obvious for some years that
newspaper reporters have either missed much in their
Journalism 101 classes...or...their instructors were
as clueless as they are on how to research info.
Newspaper publishers are living in the past and have
no basis for communicating with their own hirees other
than laying down the law as to what will be published
and what won't; what spin will prevail as the norm for
the organ.
Bloggers have the advantage of keen interest in the
topic at hand and will spend hours researching/tracking
the original threads which set the piece going. Its
just that simple.
...just a lonely little voice, crying in the dark, so lost, so lonely.....
If the salivating morons have you spewing spittle in panic, what does that make you?
What's a Steve Lovelady, anyway? Any relation to Bruce Lovelace?
That's because the "mainstream" media has a snarky disdain for boring old history and facts and wants to control events, not report on them.
Ping-a-ling-a-ling..... Good Morning!!
"We" are now a reality, and "we" are in the midst of fabulous changes.
I would argue that "Journalizm" has NEVER been a profession, that these people are glorified reporters and news-readers, and that they need to stick with the FACTS and leave the OPINIONS to others. Or face consequences when they step over the line into sedition and treason.
Beckel was having a hissy fit last night. What the heck you can't have all that freedom of speech.
I think the conservatives should take over CBS. They're vulnerable. If only I knew how...
" love the smell of fear from the LSM idiots. Get used to it, lowlifes; we're out for all your scalps and will take them if presented the opportunity.
Bloggers, 3 (Raines, Rather-Blather, Eason)
LSM, 0."
Oh come now. You mean you are not giving one to the LSM for headlining Abu Gharib for 28 straight days? /sarcasm off
ha ha ha
you gotta love this...here is the web summary
he lied
we caught him
its our fault
is that it? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAH
hey how about , oh, i dont know..like soemthign you havent done for a long time...like...tell the truth..maybe? there is an original idea....
I'm so ronery, so ronery, sitting on my rittle throne-- Team America
The colleges teach "activist journalism" from textbooks. They make, break, and coerce these Bolsheviks from the first day of class. None of us would be able to stand the coercion, the bias, the worldview, and the obnoxiousness of the assignments, the books, and the professors.
Only a true believing left wing fascist can emerge from the journalism programs.
Yep. Oh well, Jordan should be happy. Now he can pursue his activism without the constraints of the title "journalist." However, I'm guessing Sharon will drop him like a stone, now that he is no longer a "CNN executive."
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