I don’t suppose that when she wrote;
“… when the U.S. corporate media were cheering the attack on Iraq these [conservative/right wing bloggers] weren’t attacking them for their complicity then.” … and … “Why are the U.S. corporate media downplaying Iraq…”
… that she realized her words were an admission that she doesn’t actually read conservative blogs or the “US corporate media” .
But onward newbie blogger! Hard on the heels of the dismissive “corporate media” posts, she recovers from the bout of Zerbisiamnesia to explain why her brand new Toronto Star hosted “blog” doesn’t allow comments;
It’s not like this is some independent blog not worth suing. It’s a billion dollar media corporation that pays huge premiums for libel insurance. And, Canada has very onerous libel laws, much tougher than in the U.S.
Then there are our hate laws. They’re there for a reason.
Talking down to her readers. Nice touch.
But never lose hope. The Star is not closed to the idea of opening up the comments sections … one day.
Personally, I would love an electronic free-for-all. It would save me a lot of cutting and pasting. (Please, a favour? No fancy typefaces!) But, as it says at the bottom of this page, the Star has the copyright. I am but a wage slave and therefore must put up with those trucks above my head. That doesn’t mean the Star isn’t fair game. Look here and here.
In fact, you can bet that the suits are watching this blog very nervously because they know that, to maintain even a shred of cybercred, it has to be free-ranging. That they went with the intemperate me as their beta blogger — others will follow — suggests that they are either out of their minds or taking this enterprise very seriously.
“Either, or.” In the two dimensional Land Of Zerbisias, possibilities only come in twos!
Here’s another, Antonia – instead of hiding in the skirts of your corporate nanny, consider blogging like a grownup.
Get your own.
Kate, Kate, Kate. I ALWAYS (almost) click on your links to blogs assuming that I’ll learn something of value. You should provide warnings (I’d still click, but not actually read more than 5 lines before realizing the joke. Ok, it’s late. Shoulda clicked when I was more awake.)
Does she get PAID for that? She gets paid to write COLUMNS?
scary
“Then there are our hate laws. They’re there for a reason.”
Yeh, they worried about comments from McClelland, no doubt.
“Here’s another, Antonia – instead of hiding in the skirts of your corporate nanny, consider blogging like a grownup.
Get your own.”
Having to hit the post button all by herself may be expecting too much from her.
I always thought Antonia’s last grand opus might be entitled; “Hopelessly lost in Trudeaupia”. But when I see her myopic screeds against Corporate America, right wing blogger conspiracy and (of course) patriarchal society, from someone profiting from nanny-state media Canada, I suspect the title may be more like “Hopelessly Lost in a Deadly Pink Fog”.
All the same, we should feel pity for someone the Canadian nanny media forces to commit intellectual suicide in print on a regular basis.
Who?
Very few traditional journalists can successfully make the jump to the blogosphere – Andrew Coyne, Paul Wells to name a couple.
The blogosphere exists because we’re tired of the lazy and dishonest crapulent fluff generated by the lame stream media like TorStar. We’re looking for voices that explore issues as they should be, and at a speed, depth, and breadth that traditional media can’t or won’t do.
Talentless hacks like Fat Tony of Concordia U are like the geek that shows up uninvited to the party. Eventually she’ll realize she’s not wanted and she’ll go limping back to her unread newspaper column.
lol, “get your own”
It’s official, my ‘Come on…Sheesh!’ is up and running with these to inaugural posts
http://habamusrodentum.blogspot.com/2005/05/come-on-sheesh-2.html
I can assure you that the big wigs at the Star are far too busy setting up housekeeping at “the Heartbreak Hotel” (the condo across the street where the male staff retreats when their wives dump ’em) and/or retrieving their mickeys from the mensroom papertowel dispensers to “watching Zerb’s blog nervously”.
Kate,
Monty Python described the contents of that blog before it ever existed…
“liberal rubbish”
P.S.
Even Kinsella tore it a new one on his blog
I created an unofficial comments site for Zerb.
It’s Here
zerbisias.blogspot.com
Yeah, get your OWN blog Antonia, get your OWN GROWN-UP blog like a GROWN-UP would.
And then give that GROWN-UP BLOG a really cool, grown-up, NON-retarded name, a wicked awesome name like “Small Dead Animals.”
Yup, the mainstream media is done for, as long as we have people like Kate fightin’ the good fight. Tremble in fear, MSM! TREMBLE! IN! FEAR!
I wasn’t the one whining about why my mommy won’t let me do comments…..
Kate, darling, Antonia was responding to people wondering why she didn’t have comments. It wasn’t an unprovoked outburst.
Good luck with your impending nervous breakdown. We’ll be watching!
Now giddy up and post twelve more rebuttals picking apart this comment.