Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
John Nolte, writing in Big Hollywood (hat tip to Rick):
In recent days and weeks three major news stories have broke here online, at Fox News or the Washington Times; everywhere but the mainstream media. Worse still, as the stories unfolded, the media willfully ignored them until, much to their embarrassment, they were forced to give grudging coverage only after official action — in the form of a resignation (Van Jones), reassignment (the NEA) or dismissal (ACORN) — occurred that could no longer be ignored.
Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to play catch up. Today they play “hide the ball.”
It’s a problem decades in the making.
If you spend those decades bringing people information, there’s no problem. But the mainstream media hasn’t really been doing that; they’ve been instead spending those years stopping anyone from talking about this-or-that, by refusing to run the story. When an alternative form of media comes up that runs these stories you don’t want talked-about, then, what do you do? That’s the problem.
Deciding to run this, and not-run that, has been the one refuge of corrupt editorialist thought and action. It is all entirely subjective. We saw this with the Chandra Levy thing eight years ago, as Dan Rather came under scrutiny for his refusal to discuss the story — he started coming up with all kinds of reasons to avoid it, illustrating plainly that the talent he was showing was one honed from years and years of the same tortured argument. One cannot help but wonder about all the things we weren’t told in the twentieth century, pre-blogs and pre-innerwebs.
But it’s entirely a matter of personal discretion and taste. If you want democrats to win and Republicans to lose, you can green-light this and red-light that all day long all month long…and when people come to question you about it you can just toss up your silly arguments like Dan Rather did. Some may not like it, but the arguments will, in their own way, be legit.
So now it’s a different world. We’re watching a whole species of dinosaur grapple with a brand new climate, and lumber onward toward extinction. Some days the dinosaur does something smart that helps to postpone the inevitable. Some days the dinosaur does something unforgivably dumb.
What Nolte’s writing about, here, is the latter of those two.
Fascinating stuff. Everyone loves to watch a train wreck.
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It’s over for the Progressive MSM. They don’t know it yet, but it is.
The White House is shocked. The press is in a catch 22. They’ve been telling us this is a few fringe rednecks whipped up by special interests. If they don’t ignore this, too, they have to admit they were wrong. Will they? They no longer control the narrative by deciding what to cover and how to cover it.
Today a third ACORN tape was released. A fourth is promised tomorrow. ACORN’s been cut from helping with the census (very quietly … as of Sunday morning, outside of Fox only ABC had a story on it). Van Jones is out. Communications Director for the NEA was quietly re-assigned. Very little coverage of any of this outside of Fox.
Quick, what ties did Obama have with ACORN?
This is where this man came from. This Alinsky culture of ends justifying means and self-anointed moral posturing.
- philmon | 09/14/2009 @ 09:18So now it’s a different world. We’re watching a whole species of dinosaur grapple with a brand new climate, and lumber onward toward extinction. Some days the dinosaur does something smart that helps to postpone the inevitable. Some days the dinosaur does something unforgivably dumb.
Worse, some on the Right actually fret about what kind of a world we will live in once the “dinosaur” (the MSM in general and newspapers in particular) has finally gone extinct. “Oh, where will we get the news from then? A bunch of people blogging in their pajamas? How can you trust that anything they say is the truth?”
Considering how many lies the MSM has been caught in during the last ten years – calling Florida early for Gore, the forged National Guard memos, the distortion of the Iraqi WMD saga, blah blah blah, why does anyone think that the Clinton News Network, the New York Slimes, or the All Barack Channel are giving us the “truth” while they await the asteroid collision? Please.
- cylarz | 09/14/2009 @ 23:52