With more than fourteen million visits to SDA, more people know who Kate McMillan is as opposed to let’s say Mr. David Olive, scribbler at the Red Toronto Star.
Not Waiting For the Asteroid on the SDA sight must be a galling sight.
Kate should Trade mark “Not Waiting For the Asteroid”.
That’s funny.
Does this guy really think Mark Steyn is a blogger turned dead tree media writer?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Steyn started writing (professionally) before Al Gore invented the internet.
MB
Chatelaine utopia : how to wear the new colour this season : lefty-pink, 30 meals in 30 minutes! and how to tell if your goose is cooked. Yes, relevant news and information that you can’t live without.
Mortimer, I just about wet myself laughing. Too funny!
Walk. Whistle. Graveyard.
Who the hell is David Olive?
Conclusive proof that the newspaper-based media is doomed: the largest circulation paper in Canada has a ill-informed, low intelligence (he finds his new sources of information from magazine castaways in dental offices?) person like David Olive on staff. The kicker is that the ‘sage’ editorial staff of the star let the column be printed.
TS is as vapid as the Readers Digest, another dead tree walking.
Olive should have a chat with the marketing folks who can’t give away free trial subscriptions.
“But, but, it’s free…why wouldn’t you try it?”
Kind of sad, really. I made a living in the that business for about a decade.
Olive seems unaware of the fact that Steyn actually has a couple of assistants who manage his (non-blog) website, among other things. Kinda not really “blogging” then, is is…?
Also, David Olive hasn’t been summoned to the White House lately, or in the case of two of his three examples, actually worked there.
And I doubt he commands $10,000 to sit in for Rush Limbaugh of an afternoon, or sells out $500/plate dinners.
But he DOES work for the Star, so he must be important!!!
Wow, there is so much wrong just in the example Steyn quoted, I’m afraid to read the rest of Olive’s piece.
I’m rarely speechless, but I sent this link to Kate with the subject line: “Wha…? Huh???”
I think David is one of the “if you say it loud enough and often enough, people will believe you” camp.
What a friggin load of bull crap. Did it ever occur to poor Dave that those former “bloggers” are now writing for the MSM because so called “journalists” like himself give us crap like this?
And come to think of it, since Mark Steyn writes for Maclean’s — you know, the __magazine__…
Oh forget it.
An amusing story. (although I must admit I am easily amused) While going grocery shopping recently here in Barrie Ont. the Toronto Star had a booth set up at the entrance to the store. giving away, for free, copies of its fine product. Now any of you who have ever been in a grocery store and have seen free sample booths know, people will try the product, even if it is mint flavoured Cheez Whiz. No one was taking a free Star. Most were polite though with a simple no thank you. Others just walked by as though the poor fellow wasn’t even there.
One last thing:
Does anyone really believe that Olive’s column has only inspired two (count ’em) comments after all this? Uh huh.
Well, you have to give the hack credit for keeping up with the Red Star’s record of never being right on any subject.
Chances of stumbling over a blog in a Nova Scotia Health waiting room is higher than finding something to read these days. Decrees from on high figure that reading someone’s Chatelaine will cause swine flu. No magazines, papers or toys for the kids from now on. Even that 1956 December issue of Reader’s Digest is gone. So now you have waiting rooms full of people looking at each other trying not to stare at each other.
Some people are stuck on paranoid.
Noonan is the doyen of the Wall St Journal, one of the supernovae of the mainstream press. And Steyn has written for major international dailies like the Telegraph, Spectator and Post for, what, decades?
It takes a special kind of ignorance to peddle this kind of nonsense. It’s almost equally shocking that there wasn’t an editor around to save Olive from embarrassing himself.
What a devastating indictment of the Toronto Star.
Hey, the Star thinks if a BS propaganda campaign works to get know-nothing Barry and Iggy elected, it’ll beat that dang blogosphere.
Besides, what else can they do besides lie, obfuscate and lie some more? Admit that Kate McMillan is eating their freakin’ lunch?
In other news, TORSTAR stock is six (6) bucks today, continuing the loooong slide down from $30 in 2003. You know, the slide that happened during the biggest bull market ever?
This just goes in my confirmatory evidence file that large corporations are run by gregarious, congenial, back slapping IDIOTS who couldn’t think their way out of a wet paper bag. I mean, how does one ignore a stock slide that big without realizing their entire business is in deadly peril, and they better pull their thumbs out?
I’m going to read “news” written by imbeciles like that?
Remember … BLOGS ROSE UP WITH NO FUNDING! and many operate successfully with nothing more than donations. Newspapers cannot do that. Blogs will endure long after there is no newsprint left to line the birdcage or wrap the fish.
I doubt if Olive could even get started on a blog.
With more than fourteen million visits to SDA, more people know who Kate McMillan is as opposed to let’s say Mr. David Olive, scribbler at the Red Toronto Star.
Not Waiting For the Asteroid on the SDA sight must be a galling sight.
Kate should Trade mark “Not Waiting For the Asteroid”.
That’s funny.
Does this guy really think Mark Steyn is a blogger turned dead tree media writer?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Steyn started writing (professionally) before Al Gore invented the internet.
MB
Chatelaine utopia : how to wear the new colour this season : lefty-pink, 30 meals in 30 minutes! and how to tell if your goose is cooked. Yes, relevant news and information that you can’t live without.
Mortimer, I just about wet myself laughing. Too funny!
Walk. Whistle. Graveyard.
Who the hell is David Olive?
Conclusive proof that the newspaper-based media is doomed: the largest circulation paper in Canada has a ill-informed, low intelligence (he finds his new sources of information from magazine castaways in dental offices?) person like David Olive on staff. The kicker is that the ‘sage’ editorial staff of the star let the column be printed.
TS is as vapid as the Readers Digest, another dead tree walking.
Olive should have a chat with the marketing folks who can’t give away free trial subscriptions.
“But, but, it’s free…why wouldn’t you try it?”
Kind of sad, really. I made a living in the that business for about a decade.
Olive seems unaware of the fact that Steyn actually has a couple of assistants who manage his (non-blog) website, among other things. Kinda not really “blogging” then, is is…?
Also, David Olive hasn’t been summoned to the White House lately, or in the case of two of his three examples, actually worked there.
And I doubt he commands $10,000 to sit in for Rush Limbaugh of an afternoon, or sells out $500/plate dinners.
But he DOES work for the Star, so he must be important!!!
Wow, there is so much wrong just in the example Steyn quoted, I’m afraid to read the rest of Olive’s piece.
I’m rarely speechless, but I sent this link to Kate with the subject line: “Wha…? Huh???”
I think David is one of the “if you say it loud enough and often enough, people will believe you” camp.
What a friggin load of bull crap. Did it ever occur to poor Dave that those former “bloggers” are now writing for the MSM because so called “journalists” like himself give us crap like this?
And come to think of it, since Mark Steyn writes for Maclean’s — you know, the __magazine__…
Oh forget it.
An amusing story. (although I must admit I am easily amused) While going grocery shopping recently here in Barrie Ont. the Toronto Star had a booth set up at the entrance to the store. giving away, for free, copies of its fine product. Now any of you who have ever been in a grocery store and have seen free sample booths know, people will try the product, even if it is mint flavoured Cheez Whiz. No one was taking a free Star. Most were polite though with a simple no thank you. Others just walked by as though the poor fellow wasn’t even there.
One last thing:
Does anyone really believe that Olive’s column has only inspired two (count ’em) comments after all this? Uh huh.
Well, you have to give the hack credit for keeping up with the Red Star’s record of never being right on any subject.
Chances of stumbling over a blog in a Nova Scotia Health waiting room is higher than finding something to read these days. Decrees from on high figure that reading someone’s Chatelaine will cause swine flu. No magazines, papers or toys for the kids from now on. Even that 1956 December issue of Reader’s Digest is gone. So now you have waiting rooms full of people looking at each other trying not to stare at each other.
Some people are stuck on paranoid.
Noonan is the doyen of the Wall St Journal, one of the supernovae of the mainstream press. And Steyn has written for major international dailies like the Telegraph, Spectator and Post for, what, decades?
It takes a special kind of ignorance to peddle this kind of nonsense. It’s almost equally shocking that there wasn’t an editor around to save Olive from embarrassing himself.
What a devastating indictment of the Toronto Star.
Hey, the Star thinks if a BS propaganda campaign works to get know-nothing Barry and Iggy elected, it’ll beat that dang blogosphere.
Besides, what else can they do besides lie, obfuscate and lie some more? Admit that Kate McMillan is eating their freakin’ lunch?
In other news, TORSTAR stock is six (6) bucks today, continuing the loooong slide down from $30 in 2003. You know, the slide that happened during the biggest bull market ever?
This just goes in my confirmatory evidence file that large corporations are run by gregarious, congenial, back slapping IDIOTS who couldn’t think their way out of a wet paper bag. I mean, how does one ignore a stock slide that big without realizing their entire business is in deadly peril, and they better pull their thumbs out?
I’m going to read “news” written by imbeciles like that?
Remember … BLOGS ROSE UP WITH NO FUNDING! and many operate successfully with nothing more than donations. Newspapers cannot do that. Blogs will endure long after there is no newsprint left to line the birdcage or wrap the fish.
I doubt if Olive could even get started on a blog.