Boy howdy, this March 4th edition (how??) of The New Republic is a real piece of work! Here’s an interesting snippet from an editorial titled “MSM, RIP,” by The Editors: “On The Huffington Post and its ilk, you would find rants about how ‘Beltway media really makes no effort to do anything other than parrot totally out-of-touch conventional wisdom–no matter how inane, stupid and ridiculous it is.’ This rhetoric creates a poisonous atmosphere. By assaulting the credibility of the press, it destroys its authority in the culture, giving cover to politicians who would rather avoid dealing with reporters in the first place.” Man, those liberal bloggers sure had some nerve that time they invented the massive natural forces dictating the evolution of information flow, huh? Well, enough. Don’t adapt, just stop the Internet. And if you think some newspaper isn’t credible, keep it to yourself, because that could destroy the newspaper’s authority! [TNR]
FLASH: Attacking Credibility Of MSM Damages Credibility Of MSM
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I think someone should give Marty Peretz a free subscription to Wonkette.
Remember: these are the same newspapers that, through their hard hitting investigative journalism, narrowly averted the Bush administration’s ill conceived march to war with Iraq.
Ban the internet? Wait a minute, first we need unauthorize wiretapping, this ensures freedom of speech.
Good heavens!
Sorry we burned down your chummy 1st class leather chair equipped, 20 year old scotch filled clubhouse in the quest for better information and not favors, MSM.
The intertubes.
They oughta start with Iraq War cheerleader-in-chief Judy Miller if they want to know where their credibility went. A little chat with Fred Hiatt would be informative as well. And maybe Howell Raines and his pet geniuses who make up better stories than they actually report.
This is like the beggar’s assault: just looking at me attacks my credibility….such a load of douchebaggery must just create it’s own ‘poisonous atmosphere’… who is these ‘Editors’, hhnnnnggh?
Geez, sorry, drinkin’ again….
That quote is slightly out of context, coming as it does right after a summary of the right wing’s attacks on the media too. That said, the editorial fails to take into account that the righties want to scrap the mainstream media entirely whereas the criticism from the left focuses mainly on how the big outlets aren’t really doing their job. There is a quantifiable difference between saying that WaPo, NBC et. al. should press for more government openness and accountability versus saying we should all get our news from Sean Assity’s Twitter feed.
Sigh. Would all newspapers and magazines just hurry up and fail already so I can stop read obituaries for the media?
Marty Peretz as Eric Cartman: Respect ma Authoritah!
That is a good point. Why should the hoi polloi use effectiveness as a guide their informational sources?
[re=245578]Bruno[/re]: I’m not seeing how wiretaps impinge on your freedom of speech. If anything they advance the freedom of reading.
Before there were all these laws preventing people from reading certain things (your email, mail, the diary you hide under your bed) luckily those Fascist laws preventing free reading no longer apply to you, unless you aren’t employed by the recession proof NSA
In which case you probably aren’t employed, are spending way more time cybering with your girlfriend at work, and are giving that nice NSA employee a much more entertaining job.
The way I see it, everyone wins here.
I have no idea why a smiley face appeared in the middle of one of my sentences… Nor where the period went after the first NSA…
I was just saying this very thing the other day when I was having a conversation with the box on Bush’s back.
[re=245590]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I can’t tell if you just spoke truth to power or not? Because WARBLOGS are now clearly in control? And you called them out on the context thing?
[re=245715]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: I hadn’t thought of it that way, but I’m not sure how I’d take being associated with anything that could be described as power. It’s like voting for a winning presidential candidate — this is all so new.
John King’s serious journalism over at CNN, talking about did Obama win, because he did not get bipartisonship made me want to reply seriously in kind to John King with a, “You are NOT the father!! Maurry!! Maurry!! And serious stuff like that to John King.
the massive natural forces dictating the evolution of information flow…. Yes. Material conditions create consciousness, it’s not the other way around, as someone said. As well.
Methinks the whores doth haggle too much.
The folks who gave a soapbox to mental nematodes like Coulter & O’Reilly – & still do so to this day – are butthurt because their credibility is in question NOW? This is a cutting-edge news story right off the front-page … in 1988.
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Check out the WikiPedia entry for The New Republic:
“in 1917 TNR urged America’s entry into World War I on the side of the Allies.” Good Golly Miss Molley if it wasn’t for them we might have joined the Triple Entante (making it the Quadruple Entante), which sounds vaguely faggy to me so I am glad we went with the Allies, Bully!!!!
“in 1980 it endorsed the moderate Republican John B. Anderson” Allot of you youngsters don’t get what’s so funny, but it is.
They are obviously not aware of all the internet traditions. And how can you stop the internet? It’s a bunch of tubes going every which-a-way.
What a bunch of crap from The New Republic, which sounds drunk.
The truth of the matter is that, as of today, the best daily, long-term, investigative and features journalism remains the journalism—real, researched and well-reported and well-written journalism—that comes from The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, and other similar large-city newspapers. That is a fact. Fact as in, the stories that best cover the daily news, the stories that are literally the best written, the stories that the best-researched, best-documented, best-covered, best-interviewed, best-edited and best-written. It is not subjective–it is a fact.
Much of the journalism that you see on web sites comes from–guess where?–The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News and other similar large-city newspapers–and magazines.
The stories that are major exclusives, the investigative series that actually delve deeply into real issues, the long-form features that uncover news about features-oriented subjects, the best analysis and commentary, and even the best sports and best features stories remain in the large-scale newspapers and magazines and on the AP wires. Without them, you’re just not left with much.
From the good people who employed Stephen Glass. Nope, no doubts as to their credibility called for!
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