Anyone Else Sick Of The Disrespect?
I just came from Hugh Hewitt’s site, and I am not happy. Out of the Columbia Journal Review comes this from a Mariah Blake interview with Tim Golden, of the New York Times. Need I repeat that the media still does not get it?
MB: A few conservative bloggers and pundits have questioned the timing of the series. Glen Reynolds (Instapundit) went as far as suggesting that The New York Times was trying to avert attention from the Newsweek ordeal by running it. What would you say to these critics?
TG: I am reluctant to respond to people who call themselves by names like "Instapundit." I certainly support scrutiny of the press; the Times is a big, powerful institution and I think it should be accountable to the public. But a lot of our self-appointed critics don't make much of an effort to base their opinions on facts. Nor do they seem to understand much about the way that newspapers work.
As Mark Steyn, blogger extraordinaire, stated this on Hugh’s show today:
I think it should be accountable to the public. But a lot of our self-appointed critics don't make much of an effort to base their opinion on facts, nor do they seem to understand much about the way that newspapers work. Now, Mark Steyn, is that defensive arrogant? Or just dumb on the part of a New York Times reporter, vis-à-vis Glenn Reynolds?
MS: Well, I think it's all three. I mean, Glenn Reynolds is a law professor. What's interesting about some of the people who've emerged on the internet as the go-to bloggers, are that they're...a lot of them are lawyers. You, yourself, the guys at PowerLine, and Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit. And often these fellows are just a lot sharper at making an argument than your average journalist is. And the reality of the situation is that you can criticize Glenn Reynolds for a lot of things, but you can't criticize him for not being fact-based. If you go to Instapundit.com every morning, and about twenty times during the day, you can see updates every twenty minutes it seems, he...the one thing he isn't short of is facts. He's got links to this, links to that. He's got both points of view. He's got several points of view. And I think this sort of clubbiness, the guildness, you know, the journalistic profession, it sounds to me like Detroit in the late 70's. It doesn't understand it's being out-maneuvered by people who are nimbler and quicker and think on their feet. And it sounds like sort of unionized backwater, and it's personally an embarrassment to me. I love newspapers. I love newsprint. I love those really cheap newspapers where half of it comes off on your fingers as you're reading it at breakfast. But these guys are making themselves an embarrassment.
Mark Steyn’s correct. We are faster. We are more nimble, and yes, we are quite knowledgeable. The MSM can continue to look at us like a bunch of pajama-clad slackers; no-nothings in the world, but the average list of credentials would shock a fair majority of the MSM when it comes to the blogosphere. Much of those that blog have some sort of connection to the law. (Our readers know how knowledgeable Thomas is when it comes to Constitutional Law. Sure, he gets heated at time, but he is grounded in that document, and would not violate it if his life depended on it.)
But the MSM does not look to the credentials of those within the blogosphere. I, personally, have not achieved those credentials yet, as I have only finished Semester One in a long line of semesters, but there are people like Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Reynolds, John Hinderrocker, Scott Johnson, et al, that are leading this swing in terms of reporting, and they are not slouches when it comes to "credentials".
The MSM can continue to keep thinking this way, but it is a serious detriment to them. It is much better to gain us as an ally as opposed to continually stoking the fires; we are not simply going to go away. You learned it in the past, and you have learned it recently when it came to Newsweek, Linda Foley, and PepsiCo. President Indira Nooyi. We jump quickly to news pertinent to the nation. The people that execute a level of malfeasance in the eyes of the public must be called to account. If the public misses it, then it falls to us to inform them, or remind them. If the media refuses to report on it, then it falls to us to inform.
Not reporting "news" is just as bad as making it up.
And that is where bloggers come in. At last count, according to Technorati.com, over ten million bloggers were online and active. That is an astonishing number considering the fact that blogosphere was born barely six years ago. Not all deal with politics, but those that do have their fair share of fisking that the MSM chooses to ignore. And until the MSM wises up, we will still be here.
When they drop the ball, we pick it up, and run with it.
The Bunny ;)
I just came from Hugh Hewitt’s site, and I am not happy. Out of the Columbia Journal Review comes this from a Mariah Blake interview with Tim Golden, of the New York Times. Need I repeat that the media still does not get it?
MB: A few conservative bloggers and pundits have questioned the timing of the series. Glen Reynolds (Instapundit) went as far as suggesting that The New York Times was trying to avert attention from the Newsweek ordeal by running it. What would you say to these critics?
TG: I am reluctant to respond to people who call themselves by names like "Instapundit." I certainly support scrutiny of the press; the Times is a big, powerful institution and I think it should be accountable to the public. But a lot of our self-appointed critics don't make much of an effort to base their opinions on facts. Nor do they seem to understand much about the way that newspapers work.
As Mark Steyn, blogger extraordinaire, stated this on Hugh’s show today:
I think it should be accountable to the public. But a lot of our self-appointed critics don't make much of an effort to base their opinion on facts, nor do they seem to understand much about the way that newspapers work. Now, Mark Steyn, is that defensive arrogant? Or just dumb on the part of a New York Times reporter, vis-à-vis Glenn Reynolds?
MS: Well, I think it's all three. I mean, Glenn Reynolds is a law professor. What's interesting about some of the people who've emerged on the internet as the go-to bloggers, are that they're...a lot of them are lawyers. You, yourself, the guys at PowerLine, and Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit. And often these fellows are just a lot sharper at making an argument than your average journalist is. And the reality of the situation is that you can criticize Glenn Reynolds for a lot of things, but you can't criticize him for not being fact-based. If you go to Instapundit.com every morning, and about twenty times during the day, you can see updates every twenty minutes it seems, he...the one thing he isn't short of is facts. He's got links to this, links to that. He's got both points of view. He's got several points of view. And I think this sort of clubbiness, the guildness, you know, the journalistic profession, it sounds to me like Detroit in the late 70's. It doesn't understand it's being out-maneuvered by people who are nimbler and quicker and think on their feet. And it sounds like sort of unionized backwater, and it's personally an embarrassment to me. I love newspapers. I love newsprint. I love those really cheap newspapers where half of it comes off on your fingers as you're reading it at breakfast. But these guys are making themselves an embarrassment.
Mark Steyn’s correct. We are faster. We are more nimble, and yes, we are quite knowledgeable. The MSM can continue to look at us like a bunch of pajama-clad slackers; no-nothings in the world, but the average list of credentials would shock a fair majority of the MSM when it comes to the blogosphere. Much of those that blog have some sort of connection to the law. (Our readers know how knowledgeable Thomas is when it comes to Constitutional Law. Sure, he gets heated at time, but he is grounded in that document, and would not violate it if his life depended on it.)
But the MSM does not look to the credentials of those within the blogosphere. I, personally, have not achieved those credentials yet, as I have only finished Semester One in a long line of semesters, but there are people like Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Reynolds, John Hinderrocker, Scott Johnson, et al, that are leading this swing in terms of reporting, and they are not slouches when it comes to "credentials".
The MSM can continue to keep thinking this way, but it is a serious detriment to them. It is much better to gain us as an ally as opposed to continually stoking the fires; we are not simply going to go away. You learned it in the past, and you have learned it recently when it came to Newsweek, Linda Foley, and PepsiCo. President Indira Nooyi. We jump quickly to news pertinent to the nation. The people that execute a level of malfeasance in the eyes of the public must be called to account. If the public misses it, then it falls to us to inform them, or remind them. If the media refuses to report on it, then it falls to us to inform.
Not reporting "news" is just as bad as making it up.
And that is where bloggers come in. At last count, according to Technorati.com, over ten million bloggers were online and active. That is an astonishing number considering the fact that blogosphere was born barely six years ago. Not all deal with politics, but those that do have their fair share of fisking that the MSM chooses to ignore. And until the MSM wises up, we will still be here.
When they drop the ball, we pick it up, and run with it.
The Bunny ;)
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