Jonathan Kay is embarrassed by an industry that probably doesn’t deserve him;
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column arguing that readers will miss the mainstream media when we’re gone. Oh sure, bloggers have a lot of spicy opinions. But when it comes to investigating important stories, they don’t hold a candle to big, deep-pocketed, old-fashioned newspaper writers and broadcast media outlets.
Imagine my embarrassment, then, when it turned out this week that the flagship newscast on the biggest, deep-pocketedest, old-fashionedest Canadian media outlet of them all — the taxpayer-funded CBC–got suckered into reporting a story that the blogosphere chewed up, debunked and spit out two days earlier.
Except that there’s nothing remarkable about this. Debunking mainstream media agenda-driven “journalism” has the bread and butter of the political blogosphere for years. Newsbusters, Media Mythbusters, the thousands of eyes at LGF, the specialists at Icecap and Anthony Watts countering weather hysteria and junk science – open source critical analysis is out there for the taking, it’s free, and yet the mainstream media continues to be deaf, dumb, and blind.
I’ve said it before – this isn’t an extinction. It’s suicide.
News consumers are no longer willing to be passive recipients of filtered, uninformed, agenda-driven journalism. They’re not just showing the imposters up for what they are, they’re responding – in subscription cancellations, channel changing, and plain old talk back;
Dear (name withheld):
I write to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail, which I have shared with Mark
Harrison, acting Executive Producer of The National, along with the request that
your concerns be addressed.
Yours truly,
Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman
We’ll be following this one.
Canadian Sentinel: “Well, well, well… and the Left thinks that the mainstream media is trustworthy. Of course they do, because the MSM…”
please allow me to finish your sentence…
IS THEM!!
CBC CHRC
FIRE.THEM.ALL.
GRITS GRITS !!!
the CTV(TASS) has turned on the GRITS.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080904/greenshift_suit_080904/20080904?hub=TopStories
I’ve just seen the Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente, for whom I have a great deal of respect, on TVO.
She actually said that no one had heard of Sarah Palin before last Friday. Interesting . . . I heard of her quite a long time ago–on the internet.
MSM: Mortally Stymied and Myopic.
Good Lord, deliver us.
“She actually said that no one had heard of Sarah Palin before last Friday. Interesting . . . I heard of her quite a long time ago–on the internet.”
It’s likely few people had heard of her, like me for instance.
Now, thanks to the dem smear campaign, everybody has. Good job of supplying the means for your own defeat.
The post Clinton dems must be the stupidest political party out there, constantly exhibiting horrible judgment and nominating facade candidates.
Now they lose, again.
Interestingly, I just saw a National Critical Issues Survey from the Conservatives.
One of the questions is “The CBC costs taxpayers over $1.1 billion per year. Do you think this is:
a. a good use of taxpayer dollars b. a bad use of taxpayer dollars.
Glad they’re at least asking.
PS. Also a question about the HRCs
All these wonderful comments and I have nothing to contribute because I won’t watch and you can’t make me watch CBC or CTV.
‘Why Is your Fifth Grader So Much Smarter Than A CBC Reporter’?
Posted by: Stan at September 4, 2008 3:25 PM
I weep with envy at that line. I am still chocking from coffee going down the wrong pipe. (O:}
Hey, for those who just love to watch their tax dollars at work, check out today’s Post, where the CBC gives a big sneering finger to Jonathan Kay on the letters page.