34 Replies to “Not Waiting For The Asteroid”

  1. it would appear that the biggest losers in the newspaper meltdown are those who promote a decidedly liberal secular progressive point-of-view…. it looks good on them

  3. Bob Roberts, Sun Times; “The newspaper industry as a whole has been suffering as readers defect to the Internet.”
    I like that word ‘defect’. As in defecive.
    Yup, anyone who doesn’t swallow the MSM line is, well, defective, ya see.

  4. Newspapers have become infested with socialists with not-so-hidden political agendas. It won’t be soon enough when many are out of business.

  5. The thing you ding-a-lings seem to miss is stunning.
    While paper circulation ( a good thing for Mother Earth) is down, online revenues are up.
    If you honestly think that the one sided nonsense offered up at sites like this is a threat to proper journalism, you have all truly swallowed the bloggers’ koolaid.
    ps. No offense to whomever runs this little blog. I’m sure your readers need your service. Cutbacks to wheelstran for the elderly and the generally dense have been under attack from conservative governments.

  6. “While paper circulation ( a good thing for Mother Earth) is down, online revenues are up.”
    Perhaps, but does the one offset the other? From the losses in market cap, it would seem not.
    “If you honestly think that the one sided nonsense offered up at sites like this is a threat to proper journalism …”
    “Proper” journalism, is it? Well, excuse me. But a word to the wise Bigtime – it’s not a good idea to look down your nose at people like that. When you do, they find themselves looking up your nose at you – and then they get to see exactly what you’re made of.

  7. Keep whistling, Bigtime. But you miss the point.
    Before the Internet and blogs, we peasants only had the print, TV, radio to “fill us in”.
    Today, yes the media may have on-line sites, but, But, BUT with a simple click of the mouse, us peasants can now source many takes on the news. Instantly. At little cost. Often first hand. And, as we see here at sda, the truth of the matter.
    Truth rules. Eventually. Even with MMGW.
    Keep whistling.

  8. Dear Ron and friends,
    Tell me the last time your personal blogger broke any breaking news?
    The photo of the dinosaur is fitting, however, the fossils are cut and paste artists. Proper journalists will continue to inform your infactuations with blog hosts.
    Blogs like these have becmoe little more than the AOL chatrooms of the last decade.
    I wonder how many of this blogs faithful were addicted to various self-serving chatrooms not so long ago.
    To quote the late great Roy Orbison:
    only the lonely…

  9. I spent the first ten years of my working life in journalism – a life lived secondhand, on the sidelines, taking notes about other people doing things. Kind of like watching porn instead of…well, you get the point.
    It takes a certain kind of person to be satisfied with that.

  12. Well, Bigtime Media Type, among other things, you need an editor.
    ” . . . broke any breaking news” is redundant and, if you’re who you say you are, I guess “infactuations” and “becmoe” are MSM spin for “infatuations” and “become”. Typical.
    Can’t you people get anything right?

  13. Hey Bigtime Bigshot, who ever told you this blog was a news outlet? Use whatever handle you want, a troll is still a troll.

  14. Bigtime: “While paper circulation ( a good thing for Mother Earth) is down, online revenues are up.” I think in addition to considering revenues, it’s important to look at influence. I admit that every weekend I shell out for three newspapers. Ultimately, however, I end up skimming a few articles, taking in a few headlines, but not really following the news as it is reported in the newspapers. An article of interest I will read in detail. For example, the National Post had a good article on the situation in Kenya this Saturday. The Globe was its usual dull (though not totally without interest.) These days I follow the blogs (especially this one) religiously. (oops, not a good metaphor to use I guess.) I feel that blogs allow me to get a more balanced picture of events, and the best thing is that the MSM no longer controls what people think.

  15. Tell me the last time your personal blogger broke any breaking news?
    Bigtime Media Type
    Well there are the wire services that most big time media use does the CBC Winnipeg break any stories with all the
    $$$$ they spend? They get stories off the wire.
    In fact bloggers waste much time talking about stories the MSM’s refuse to break.
    How often do the media break a story usually they essentially read press releases.
    Blogs are adding a new dimension to media. Fact is all the advertisers who are wasting money on dinosaurs, [pun intended] should be directing more to Kate.
    So the real question is: What do I clean my fish on or line my bird cage?
    Texas Canuck
    I have some flyers failing that a real estate news if you need some. 🙂
    If that’s not good enough my cat should be able to help out with your bird. Oops,

  16. Tell me the last time your personal blogger broke any breaking news?
    Just picking one catagory, go to google, try Michael Yon, Michael Tottem and Bill Roggio…solid breaking news, great analysis, good style, avid readers, and guess what, bloggers on the ground, covering Iraq. Spread the news, your sorry-assed troll or real life as a journo-moron is coming to an end either way.
    Question answered.

  17. Hey bigtime media typo…news ain’t news unless people talk about it. I support the print medium, need it to start the woodstove. Remind the folks in Cornwall that internet is better than paper. Maybe you power up your laptop with bicycle power but mine runs on juice from Ont.Hydro….oops not so good for Father earth.

  18. Did someone actually just use the term, “ding-a-lings“.
    When did Ned Flanders start posting here?

  19. BTMT Jeffie….You want breaking news,go to Drudge or any number of NEWS blogs. This one is to tear new a**holes(when required) in the MSM so-called “news” stories. If you don’t want discussion about what is right/wrong about the MSM’s “news”, quit wasting Kate’s bandwidth. Oh wait.That’s what socialists do best,waste other peoples stuff.

  20. This is really funny – 42 minutes after he shows up as “Bigtime Media Type”, Kate outs him as Jeff Davidson. What’s the problem Jeff – never heard of IP addresses???

  22. Now let us look at the news manufacturing industry.
    From this perspective, it looks as thought the people that are responsible for the news are irresponsible. You read something in the newspaper and then you read the real story, (viz, yesterday’s Spinning for Khamenei – “When journalists use ellipses, Posted by Kate at 12:31 AM) and they don’t mach, what do you do?
    In this area, sort of deep south Okanagan daily (relative to BC) “Pentincton Herald”. The paper is full of the stuff like, these people collected money for this, these other people are doing good over there, then there is this group that is feeding somebody.
    While these maybe in many cases good causes, when you want to read news, you really don’t care to read that kind of stuff, (or maybe You do).
    It is seriously irritating when you can’t read the news for its own sake, so to speak. It may be true that there is not much going on in the area at this time of the year (it’s pretty much in hibernation) there are other places, other countries, other continents that have things happening.
    As related to the big papers, The Calgary Herald, once it was wrestled out of the hands of socialists, became pretty solid and level headed paper with an excellent staff. Don Martin resided there before moving to the east. Another columnist that could irritate hell out of some of us was Katherine Ford though she was not necessarily a socialist, she just liked to stick pins and needles into people.
    On the American side, the major newspapers are clearly socialist, mind you the columnists and the “journalists” make superior living, working for these papers; maybe they just feel real bad about that, though since they like the cash rewards they will pay lip to the plebeians.
    So today, many (majority?) people can get the news, on regular bases, in the raw. They will decide what to think rather than have some “punk journalist” tell them what was “really” meant regarding an event, as opposed to what the event was actually about.
    It is easy, right now, to look at the presidential primaries in the US and compare different on line papers, television reports and news radio. It is as though some of those “journalists” live on another planet or something. Opinion is one thing; news is another, the “journalists’ get confused more often than not as to what their job is. Maybe they, the ‘journalists’ don’t care, don’t know or are so superior they could not give a damn.
    Is there no wander that most people that read the nonsense don’t care to be insulted?
    If this post appears the second time, I apologize.

  23. ……. proper journalism ……..
    Posted by: Bigtime Media Type at January 5, 2008 7:23 PM
    Clearly, the Bigtime character does not know that there is no such a thing as proper journalism, therein may lay the problem of the news manufacturers.

  24. Take a bow, Kate. I barely read the newspapers anymore, but I read four blogs daily. Evolution of the species, this is, yes?

  26. I don’t know who this “Jeff Davidson” person is, but he has no clue about the real crisis for the main stream news industry. Newspaper publishers are careful to brag that their online business is growing, but their main sources of revenue are mostly falling off fast. Subscriptions are sliding, and the advertising that has fattened them for decades is in steep decline. The online sites that newspapers are having to compete with are almost infinitely more efficient than the old “dinosaurs”, such as the New York Times and its ilk. The local newspaper can now be read for free online, and free ads on ebay, etc. are seen by millions of people.
    I just bought my 76 year old uncle a new Dell. He is already talking about dropping the local Billings Gazette that he has subscribed to for decades. (Gazette parent Lee Enterprises’ stock has dropped from $48.19 in 2004 to $11.86 yesterday). Ka-ching.

  27. Kate,
    I think you must be wrong. There’s no way Jeff made a mistake like that regarding his IP address. Afterall, he is able to understand complex, scientific, climate theories about global warming that he than explains to us common folk. There’s no way a climate scientist like Jeff Davidson is that stupid.

  28. I actually wasted valuable seconds of my life writing a serious and honest reply to jeff davidson. I been robbed.

  29. The problem with most journalists now is they can’t separate news form opinion. They give a news item and go on a spin, telling us what we should take from that news in their all-knowing, agenda driven opinions.
    We wonder who Jeffy Davidson really is now that he’s been outed under another nom de plume. Is he really a Big Time Media Type? Could he be someone we watch on TV? The fact he’s making spelling errors could point to the fact he’s tired from living a double life.

  31. Kate, you should update your newsprint-is-dying metaphor. The more crdible theory of dinosaur extinction now is that the rise of new insetcs and the plants they pollinated did in the dinosaurs, slowly but surely. Blogs are the insects to the newsprint MSM.

  32. One trick I have noticed the TV news Networks love to use;
    When interviewing the guest/citizen on the street, the sound quality and word enounciation is often poor. In the past I found myself waiting for the Journo’s wrap up at the end of the segment.
    “Magically”, when the CBC’s, Joe Blah comes on, the volume is louder, pronounciation is clearer and I found myself often accepting the Journo’s take — because it was easy. Lazy.
    ‘For CBC News, this is Joe Blah Blah in Citytown’.

  33. Posted by: Kate at January 5, 2008 8:05 PM
    “By the way, Jeff Davidson – when did you become a “big time media type”?”
    Er-r-r-r-r… fake, but accurate?

  34. Damn im getting tired of these idiots calling me a glorified reptile DARN IT IM GOING TO GET VIOLENT WITH THOSE WACKOS IM GOING TO PICK THEIR EYES OUT SQUAWK SQUAWK

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