Posted on 12/09/2004 10:18:50 PM PST by weegee
ohhh
I really hope they try to regulate blogs....
This is a perfect time for a "Go ahead, make my day" quote from Cline Eastwood :)
The Legacy Media Strikes Back. Film at 11.
So, they (CBS, et al) can always sue us. That is a form of regulation. Otherwise, we are as free as they are to propagate discussion.
One side of the SD thing is explained here:
http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_dakota_politics/2004/week50/index.html#a0002942229
I didn't know about or care about this and I don't now. However, if the guy was a consultant he should have had a notice on his blog to that effect. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Whatever Duncan B. Black/Hatrios or Oliver Witless do is there own problem.
Good work weegee. Bump for later read.
The world of news reporting has changed.
CBS and the rest of the MSM shmucks are just gonna' have to live with that.
Beginning next year, the F.E.C. will institute new rules on the restricted uses of the Internet as it relates to political speech.
What does this mean?
John Kerry had people from MoveOn.ORG and the Bush parody website working in his campaign.
There was a lot of coordination going on. In the case of the parody site, it actually shut down so that he could devote time to the campaign (and possibly to avoid FEC filing).
What's a blog, what's a PAC, what's an online newspaper/magazine?
YEAH... (best Dean Voice) Bring it On.
The Way too Liberal Supreme Court is pretty much in love with the net, and the bloggers are Exactly the part they are most in love with.
So it looks like CBS is going to have to get used to having 20 million fact checkers looking over thier sholder from now on. 5 years ago they would have gotten away with thier little fraud. No more. And the fact that they tried just hastens their demise.
Yes, bloggers are just opinionated writers at some far off corner of the internet. Funny how so many millions of Americans are able to discern the truth without the help of CBS. Funny how so many Ma and Pa Polyesters are able to wade thru the trash of sex tales and juvinile rantings to focus on about 100 really good writers who can state their case and prove their theorys with tools at hand. Funny how an informal web of such people can bring down a giant.
Oh yes, CBS Please DO float a proposition to Regulate the Bloggers. Please!!!
The Pajamahadeen are here to stay. Ours is an insurgency that can't be uprooted since it has no "centers." Its the first known instance of assymetric info netwarfare in the 21st Century.
Probably a bylaw of CFR. We all knew that it restricted political speech. It is unconstitutional and will have to be tossed out but first it must go to the Supreme Court.
Although I think that even CBS isnt that stupid.
I would bet they back off of this. They know they would get crucified...
Agreed! Sort of like the 9/11 of MSM.
It won't get tossed. But its impossible to enforce it. CFR will collapse of its own weight before then.
Better put some ice on that.
Thanks. It just raises the hair on the back of my neck, that's all...
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