1 We can do it! By supporting Blogs, and attacking AP lies loudly, and clearly, we can bring AP down in ruins!

The MSM should be getting scared!

Happy New Year!
USA, all the way!

2 LOL Mr. Rago has a serious case of ass. [didn't read Hewitt btw]
 
MSM

We've got 'em by the short hairs, yes they still have more access [sic broadcast licences] and more money than we do but the ijiots still believe they're gonna make a comback of sorts with the internetS. 
 
The huge Problem for them is, is that in ever increasing numbers we are refusing to buy their product anymore.
 
Super Overblown Star Rapporteurs make eggcellent targets and nobody punctures Blow Hards Journalists like bloggers do!
 
Fact checking all the liars has gots to be the funnest thing going, it's ever so lovely  to catch either a politition or gubmint spokesperson laying a big fat one. 
 
Political races:  Bloggers were right on top of many stories the major political parties and the MSM tried to bury.
 
Mil blogs prove the case all by themselves.  They broke the real story and continyue to do so even though the MSM keeps producing a river of shit memes and agit prop as per usual.
 
I congratulate all of you.  Or should I say US!!  yes US,  I congratulate all of US .
 
 
Happy New Year!
:-)

3 It looks like the appropriately named Rago doesn’t want any competition. Too bad. The blogosphere has broken the stranglehold the Establishment Media had on public discourse, and he feels threatened. Like most print journalists, he’s afraid of losing influence and becoming obsolete, so he’s lashing out against the new wave in journalism. The fear and loathing in his piece was impossible to miss, because he’s obviously too sophomoric to control either one. He’s too stupid to conceal his fear, and too arrogant to realize his hatred reflects poorly on him and the entire field of print journalism.


The sneering elitism of Rago and his cohorts turns people off, and their desire to control the national debate by hook or by crook is exactly what drives more and more people to the blogosphere for news and editorials. People want “who, what, why, where, and when,” not Big Brother using manufactured news to dictate what they’re supposed to feel and believe. Yellow journalism isn’t in big demand, but you’d never know it by looking at the claptrap produced by the so called “mainstream” media.


The blogsphere is a superior news venue, and thoughtful Americans are increasingly turning to it for the most up to date information, honest reporting, and the chance to interact with its news writers. It’s like the IMAX of news compared to the silent movie era newsreels of the creaky old Establishment Media. Corresponding with like minded people is also a big plus, whether someone is a moderate, a conservative, or a thoughtless, left-wing automaton. Most moderates and conservatives enjoy having their ideology validated, while leftists live for their ideological circle jerks.


Paleojournalists like Rago don’t want anybody using the internet to bypass print and broadcast journalism. They want to force-feed the public left-wing pap from their antiquated Establishment Media outlets, and suppress any healthy alternatives.


Ironically, Ragin’ Rago admits that he reads most of the top blogs he claims are inferior to the Establishment Media. He wouldn’t bother to do that if they really were inferior. His own screed against the blogosphere contained so many inaccuracies and inanities that it has become the subject of ridicule. He should have titled it “The Print News Cabal: Written By Liars To Be Read By Dupes.” By his own admission, the title he chose was plagiarized from Joseph Conrad’s description of the very print news he’s trying to extol. “Written by fools to be read by imbeciles.” That’s never been truer than it is today.


He tried to stifle the photosphere but all he did was spark a shit-storm of newsblog analysis--a shit-storm that is burning his ass to a crisp. Hugh Hewitt skinned him alive in the interview linked here. Rago was exposed as the mewling, pretentious, pedantic, and snot-nosed ignoramus that he is. He’s being flayed all across the conservative blogosphere.


His story is unintentionally hilarious. His whopper about being a conservative who loves “The New Republic” and “The New Criterion” made me laugh out loud. I’m not surprised that he lies for a living, although he’s obviously deluded enough to believe in the fable of the Old Media’s self proclaimed superiority.


Maybe Rago will make it to the wall of shame along with Dan Rather, Eason Jordan, et al. That would be a real accomplishment for a 23 year old.

 

4 I am thankful that new media is here and am never surprised by the old media with their left-thinking brains twisting stories to fit their idea of America.  I just told my husband that it take the death of a Republican President to be spoken kindly of in the old media and yet they speak glowingly of Carter or Clinton on a daily basis, it is truly sickening. 

5 Such a whiny, snivelling pile of drivel, but does anyone expect
anything else from a slimy piece of lefturd shit? I certainly don't,
but I do find it ironic that he writes about irony, because the true
irony is the by continually supporting the enemies of freedom for the
past hundred years and continuing to do so unabated intot the future,
he and all other lefturds in the world are helping set the stage for
the greatest, most protracted slaughter that humanity has ever
perpetrated upon itself, because the violence that rages in the world
now is merely a light breeze that preceeds the hurricane.

Once our efforts in the Middle East have failed, which they surely
shall, thanks in no small parts to Rago and his ilk, who never tire of
being our enemies' waterboys, combined with the general apathy and
unmanliness of a degenerate West, the car bombs will be going off in
London, Paris, Madrid, New York, and San Francisco, as well as all
other major cities in the West, on a daily basis, and if we, the last
few holdouts of Western civilization, begin to fight back, it will be a
no holds barred ethnic cleansing on a scale that even lefturds can't
imagine in their most fevered dreams, which says a lot, because
lefturds love the idea of wiping out whole portions of humanity, and
they seem to have set their sights on us. Well, what's good for the
goose is good for the gander, so if lefturds and muslims are so
enamored with genocide, we should give it to them, and exterminate them
all, if we can find enough men with the balls to do it in our weak,
useless, effeminate society.

6 Whilst blogs have a role, do you honestly believe we'd have any news at all were it not for the MSM? Sure, you might get one or two unchecked, unverified, entirely-subjective reports filtering in if someone interested in blogging happened to reside near a newsworthy story, but in the main, it ain't the bloggers going out and doing the footwork, is it?
 

Don't get me wrong - places like this do some great work in aggregating, editorialising, elucidating, and generally presenting news in an interesting format - and granted, they get the occasional scoop. But the 'blogosphere' (ridiculous term, by the way) is not going to replace the MSM - if it did, it would need professional, salaried journalists working full time. Then, it would simply become the MSM, albeit delivered over a different medium.

And no, I'm not a journo, or in any way associated with the MSM. I simply like to get my news from a variety of sources, and judge the veracity myself. Good as they are, I'd be pretty bummed out if only the blogs were left.
 

7 People, this guy is 23 years old.

A story not unlike Tara Connor and Katie Rees, until recently no one knew who he was. And, as evidenced by his clearly misguided thinking (you know he was beaten as a child) he will fade back into the MSM obscurity.

8

When I was in college I wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper.  I spent a good deal of time with a dictionary and thesaurus finding the most obscure words and phrases so as to sound smart.  I suspect Mr. Rago did the same with this piece, judging by the difference in vocabulary between his written and his spoken words. 

One day he, too, will look back on his youthful piece of writing with embarassment.

9 Preston:


I'm, going to assume you didn't bother to read the Hugh Hewitt interview with Rago, because if you did, you're hopeless.


As he pointed out, the Establishment Media dominates the quantity of news available due to their huge budgets, but the blogs rule when it comes to quality. Science, law, sports, current events, history, and the biggest news story in the world--the Coalition mission in Iraq--are all covered most expertly by bloggers. These bloggers are experts in their fields, and on the ground where it matters--specifically Iraq. Even the amateurs tend to do a far better job. Conservative amateurs, anyway. Left-wing blogs simply parrot the EM.


It's your beloved EM "journalists" who sip cocktails in the Green Zone and print jihadi propaganda written by terrorist stringers as though it were irrefutable fact. Phony stories, phony sources, and ideological agendas are the norm, not the exception.


Michael Yon, the soldier bloggers, Centcom, et al. are the real experts getting the real stories on the ground. You know, the ones the EM smears as liars and Bush operatives on a daily basis.


Nobody here claimed that the blogosphere (a ridiculous term coined by your idiotic heroes in the EM,) was going to replace the old ways. What has been said is that the EM is losing its captive base. Even Rago knows more and more people prefer to get their news from blogs--especially young people. That's why he wrote his hatchet-job.


You wrote that you "like to get my news from a variety of sources, and judge the veracity myself." What do you think the blogosphere is doing, you unmitigated twit?

It's a sad fact that most news comes through the thoroughly unreliable and hopelessly left-wing EM. Many of us have become fact checkers for the deeply dishonest, and quite frankly, incompetent, EM. That pisses guys like you off.


Too fucking bad. The monopoly the EM had on news is over. They no longer get to decree waht is considered news, how it will be presented, and what America should think and feel about it. Sure, they still distort the facts outrageously and manufacture stories out of whole cloth, but they aren't getting away with it any longer.


The old days are gone.

10 Maclgf:


This 23 year old guy typefies the dishonesty and sneering elitism of the Establishment Media. He's a perfect example of what's wrong with "journalism" today.


If he does drop from the public's attention, he'll still be hard at work fleecing the public. Journalism schools are churning out hudreds of assholes just like him every year.


This problem isn't going away anytime soon, especially if we ignore it.