Another grim milestone in the media battle with red ink. Glenn Reynolds;
I said earlier that the Blogosphere has more reporters in Iraq than many major media outlets. And certainly more now than the Boston Globe.
It’s a quagmire.
Another grim milestone in the media battle with red ink. Glenn Reynolds;
I said earlier that the Blogosphere has more reporters in Iraq than many major media outlets. And certainly more now than the Boston Globe.
It’s a quagmire.
Does anyone at all get their news exclusively from the MSM other than socialist bootlickers and liberal crack sniffers?
So who do you suppose will get to feed on the enormous carcass of the MSM? It’s about to die, if not dead already?
“Hard News” has become a fantasy. It no longer exists. The day that journos decided they were also the conscience of the “progressive” class, was the day the news began to die. I think that that started to happen about the time of the Alger Hiss trial, right after WW2 … it became entrenched during “Vietnam” and thrived until a most unfortunate event occured … Al Gore vented the internet. The rest is history.
Cant cut more newsroom jobs have to close the foreign bureaus because need to keep track of Paris Hilton
The alternative media ( AKA I-Net/Blogosphere) must have put a kink in some major MSM players because they got some degenerate Dems to table a bill in the USHoR under the lost leader of “lobby reform” which had a clase that essentially made any well traveled Blog or political web site a “Lobby” under these new definitions….they would be expected to register and pay fees as other lobbies and also have deep restriction placed on what they can say about the ngovernment as a registered lobby.
The Blogosphere just dodged that near fatal bullet in a hard fought amendment to the bill that removed this clause regulating blogs as lobbyists.
Just the same it shows the new alternative interative people’s media has garnered some big well heeled and politically connected enemies…someone is hurting for all the readership the blogs peel away from the MSM gruel sheets…the print moster is awake and agery and he has his claws out….shows the Blogs are closer to reflecting political truths than the fairy tales we get in the MSM
It also shows the statist Dems are as focused against the electronic frontier of the 1st amendment as the controll freak Neo-cons. Political blogging has both parties worried and on their guard…this is good.
I wonder if the MSM journo-lounge lizards, encrusted like barnacles inside the Green Zone, have noticed that the bloggers are out there are embedded with the troops. Nah. Maybe it’s better that they aren’t aware of the parallel universe that is replacing them.
When the Iraq MSM slug gets a cellphone call that something is happening chances are they will send a local stringer out to get “the story”. Never mind that the local stringer has tribal filters in place with everything that he reports. We’ve had the rock lifted on Reuters and AP news gathering doing just that.
WL Mackenzie Redux – great points. The Dems/Libs would love to muzzle bloggers. They’ve had a monopoly on public information and the cultural agenda for decades. This is a crowd that isn’t used to sharing. Tough.
Er Greenpeace, Western Canada Wilderness committee, Green Party, Young Lieberals, assorted womyns and youth groups, Jack Liarton, NDP, UN, Flip Dion anybody, will anybody denounce the carbon emissions!!
Lebanon looks more like Paris every day-thats not a good thing.
Time laid off another 500, on top of the 600 last year, and closed 3 US bureaus. 10,000 laid off of a big drug firm. Pelosi should be feeling great, less than a month in office and 10,500 jobs lost. I thought to improve the ecomony you were supposed to create jobs. Add to that the number who will be let go due to the wage increase.
Is she taking lessons from dion or vice versa. Ruin the economy so you can promise voters how you will fix it.
Is there an address for Khans local office. I intend to donate to his re-election campaign. Wonder what the reaction would be if we all sent him 20.00, from across Canada. 20.00 is not much, but the cbc and liberals could not accuse him of getting huge secret donations, and lending himself money.
Mary T,
I dont think Pelosi can take credit for the job cuts. Job cuts dont happen overnight – they are carefully planned to minimise damage. This can take weeks, even months. If anything, its a legacy of the Republican Administration that happens to be playing out under a new leader. Or is that too hard to understand?
If the Democrats win in 2008, I dont think they can take as much responsibility for what happens in Iraq in their first month in office – Bush’s administration is likely more responsible for it.
In any case, did anybody actually read the link?
The Globe never had a bureau in Iraq to begin with, so this downsizing has really not made a differnce.
“The Globe, which opened its first foreign bureau in the early 1970s, now has bureaus in Jerusalem, Berlin and Bogota, Colombia. The four reporters in those bureaus will be offered jobs in Boston. The Globe will continue to send reporters and photographers overseas on special projects and for certain major events, Baron said.”
Samuel: Too bad you can’t recognize sarcasm. However, media jobs have been cut 88% in 2007. They are blaming it on how people get their news today, search for jobs etc by the net rather than print. Nowhere is anyone blaming the reason for lost viewers and circulation on the fact of the bias and hate for Bush that has gone on for 6 years. All they would have to do is start telling both sides of a story or event. Look at the Duke rape case and now the Picton trial. When the msm start putting the focus back on the truth, instead of attractive anchors spouting lies, maybe things will turn around. I will never trust some under 30 female telling me what people think. Of course the cbc puts out females who can’t afford to get their hair done, and are so full of hate for anything non liberal that their body language and facial expressions give them away. Then there is giggles on ctv, and her co-host, cranky Oliver. They haven’t had a new idea since trudeau, and you know what he did to our country.