Chris

Media Update

Saturday, August 26, 2006 7:34:46 AM

Remember the Editor & Publisher piece I linked that slimed bloggers and defended false reporting from Lebanon? The author admits to faking articles, as well...or he did, before he started covering his tracks after bloggers found out.

CNN is putting together what can be expected to be a puff piece on Osama's life and tranformation into a terrorist. A prediction: the final 5 minutes will explain what the US did to Osama to turn him into a killer.

Wuzzadem catches stupidity and denial at CBS. Just read the article, it is amazing.

LGF expects them to edit out the Palestinian celebration footage. We can't remind the public of things like that; after all, everyone claims it never happened.

CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network’s coverage of that day’s events.
Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.

LGF also posts on the arrest of a NY man for providing access to terrorist television: Hezbullah's Al Manar broadcasts. The ACLU says terrorist propaganda is protected on Free Speech grounds, and is probably right.

LGF x3: Lithium battery = landmine at the BBC.

Who does Allah love more? Mary Katherine Ham or Kirsten Powers?

A piece on bloggers at the Beeb. We are so cute with our little diaries! And an article at The Economist that talks about newspapers problems with going online. (via Instapundit)

My view is that bloggers are not news creators except in exceptional circumstances (Rathergate and the fake Reuters photos, for example). Our role is to aggregate news and keep the media honest. If reporters and photographers worry about being beaten up by blogs for bias or faux news, and that makes for more accurate news, then we have done our job.

Islamism As A VirusA Sign the Apocalypse Is Near

Comments

Edward Piercyedwardpiercy # Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:09:17 PM

Well, first thing Savage uses the word "commenters" not "commentators", and I'm pretty sure it's the second, which is actually a word, and was meant originally as a person who comments on something, i.e. John Madden is a football commentator. So much for the Brits being the guardians of the English Language.

I wouldn't diagree totally with his article, though. Let's face it, there's an awful lot of tripe out there. But it is of course one-sided, and so that's the problem with that one. I agree with you about the political blogs and why they are important. My view has always been that the Framers designed the government out of the ideals of the Enlightenment for an enlighted people. So the more people that get the facts, AND THE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN GETTING THE FACTS, the better one would think.

Then there are blogs like mine. I don't post little thoughts on taking the bus. At least not usually. On the other hand I'm not a political or political digest blog either. And he seems to have missed totally the number of tech blogs out there, which if I had to bet I would say constitute the largest percentage of blogs on the net that are actually "posted" on a regular basis -- most of these "emo blogs" are very intermittent posts.