[W]hat is passing is not only a business but also a profession -- the journalistic tradition of nonpartisan objectivity.Heh.
Free markets, it turns out, often make poor fact-checkers, instead feeding the fantasies of conspiracy theorists from "birthers" to Sept. 11, 2001, "truthers."“Birthers” not including the Trig Palin fanticizers, of course.
"...Walter Cronkite prospered in the old environment, ..."And Tet was a victory, not a defeat.
[F]ew American bloggers have the resources or inclination to report from war zones, famines and genocides.Michael Yon, Michael Totten, J.D. Johannes. And Mudville Gazette, Blackfive. Maybe the mainstream media could consider engaging them?
[B]bloggers would have little to collect or comment upon without the costly enterprise of newsgathering and investigative reporting.Rathergate.
What is to be done? A lot of good people are working on it.Yes, but they’re not working in the mainstream media.
[Update & bump] Big Government isn't as kind to Gerson as I am.
What did I learn from the "Birther" conspiracy? More about Obama's past and the Hawaii government process than I would have ever learned from the NYT's endless coverage of what a cute couple the Obamas are.
ReplyDeleteAn age of unrelenting horror, indeed.
Poor little Birthers/Birchers, (still in denial about their failure) Judge Land and now judge Carter, smack down the crazies (case dismissed).
ReplyDeleteNot even “Fake News” Bill O’Reilly believes the crazies, how funny.
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/10/29/bill-oreilly-slams-orly-taitz/
http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/BIRTHER%20CASE%20LIST.pd...
To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true (TOUGH WHEN YOU KEEP LOSING CASES), if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it.
In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.
I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC). She wants to re-establish a family values party.
I can only hope that Taitz will resist the state collectors that will be coming to collect the $20K.
Preston
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