Comments on: Another blogging hit piece

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:48:55 +0000

How many of those “self-policing” actions of the MSM started because some bloggers detected a reporter lying? Dan Rather, call your office. The bloggers force the MSM to pull up its socks and start policing things that in the past they would have covered up or not even noticed. Some are branching out into reporting now, and the aristos are getting nervous.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:21:52 +0000

Now people can get their voices heard in spite of the MSM.
Obviously given the diversity one man’s blog is another’s LATimes.

That a Jayson Blair of The New York Times or a Jack Kelley of USA Today surfaces now and then as a plagiarist or a fabricator ultimately is testament to the high standards tens of thousands of others strive to uphold each day without recognition. Blair and Kelley are infamous, but they’re also gone.

A bit of an exageration given some of the stuff that appears in the NYT as it spins/fabricates situations to accord with its agenda.
Just ask Mediacrity, Honest Reporting et al.

These effete and often clever baby “bloggies” are rich in time and toys, but bereft of adult supervision.

Sounds a bit like the “sour grapes” ‘pyjamas’ comment we heard some time back.

At least a lot of bloggers provide links to their facts and don’t hide their own opinions in imaginary nameless govt., officials, experts and specialists on pain of being fisked out of existence.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:08:23 +0000

There are bloggers like Kos, for example, who fit the description. Somehow, I doubt that is what he had in mind.

By: Laurence Simon

Laurence Simon — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:15:11 +0000

Maybe the writer of the offending article doesn’t realize that it’s THE MSM’s CUSTOMERS that are in revolt and that their product is flawed, insular, and antiquated.