I’ve started to post various versions of this about 50 times but passed… Now CBS (surprise) has me so annoyed that I have to partake in a bit of blatant back-patting and partisanship.
From a completely condescending piece on CBS’s website.
Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism
.. what I saw in the blogosphere on Nov. 2 was more reminiscent of that school paper or a “Breaker, breaker 19” gabfest on CB than anything approaching journalism.
From early afternoon to very late in the evening, those who checked in with the leading political blogs like Drudge, Wonkette, Andrew Sullivan, evote, mydd.com, Daily Kos, and others were given the distinct impression that John Kerry would win the election. The website Slate.com, well-funded and generally a responsible voice, joined in the folly.
The bloggers, obtaining through leaks partial, in some cases suspect snippets of information from the early “cut” of data gathered by MSM through exit polls, were spreading a story that the network and wire service bosses knew to be incorrect because their own experts
Yeah, and not just Wizbang. If the whole left side of the blogosphere read parts of the right, their reality based thinking would be a whole lot more reality based. Not least on election night.
Didn’t any of those hooting liberals remember that early on in 2000, based on faulty exit polling, it looked like Florida was going for Gore. And the networks called it early and depressed conservative vote turnout in the panhandle. I can’t say I felt unaffected by the early poll returns but I remembered Florida 2004 and decided it was just wrongheaded, as it had been last time. It was so far off, the results didn’t seem rational.
I think conservatives get much more passive, non-volitional intake of liberal sourced news than liberals get of the conservative stuff. So we have a much easier time seeing both sides of the picture than they do.
– Hmmmm….I seem to vaguely recall something about a bottle bet before the elections but I’ll let that slide….More to the point for a group that is so “un-important” we seem to be garnering a lot of press, albeit negative, which is only to be expected when you’re being marginalized as quickly as the MSM…..Whatever…Like all things in himan communication, old ideas fade, new ideas prosper, but it always has a way of sorting itself out…..
Plus who voted earlier in the day? People who don’t take their jobs seriously as they do their politics.
Liberals
While you discuss last week’s argument the lefty Bloggers are pushing the election fraud issue:
Here is a link from ustogether:
http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm
Olbermann:NEW YORK
You are making the assumption here that CBS actually wishes to find and disseminate the truth.
The greatest lesson learned during this election is that many in the MSM have no interest in the truth. Instead, they wish to create and project an agenda-based
heh- Hunter- I “vaguely recall” it too. (no literally) what was it?
I can only assume I lost. LOL
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You’ve got to be kidding! The MSM would never stoop so low as to read blogs of red-necked-gun-toting-gay-bashing-bible-thumping hicks living in fly-over country. What the hell could those people know? Rather than admit you were right they are slowly but surely building the case for voter fraud as the major contributor to the actual vote differing from the exit polls. We got four more years of republicans in office, but we’re going to get four more years of sore loser cry-babies claiming we stole the White House. The blame can only be on conservative bloggers, first they claimed you were misleading the people, now they’ll have you involved in covering up the fraud.
And how could that’ve helped. Let’s see. Convince another million to vote for a corrupt politician. Good idea. Glad I don’t live there.
Corrupt politician? No, Randy, Kerry lost. Remember?
– Paul – I was so elated over the election results I was moved to send you your choice of apertif anyway….Lets both be happy you lost…. (Notice not one reference to “booties” in the past 4 days)….. proud of myself….. *chuckle*…and by the way congrats…..
Liberals are great lovers of the Big Lie theory; they figure if they tell their lies often enough, and with enough conviction, we’ll all believe them… sadly for them, we on the right have fully functioning memories, and don’t buy it.
Where it gets tough for us, though, is that, while it takes only a moment for them to fling out a lie, it takes us time to methodically rebut it… during which time they’ve spouted 10 more lies.
Too bad for them that sheer volume of lies doesn’t win elections, lol.
– Either Olbermann should check himself in for immediate drug testing or he’s doing the “10 big stories” thing he does on His parody newscast. If you run down the list of “Cinch” news stories peddled by CBS, the NY Times and the MSM et al, during this election cycle, the only lead pipes where the ones the blogsphere was dropping on the fourth estates noggins…Since he straddles both worlds he should look down…..The gap is widening as his enherent bigotry, “the old school” side of the Swiftboat, sinks slowly in the west….
For what it’s worth, last week one of the networks cited internet blogs as their source for the story about Yasser Arafat’s death. I first heard the story on the radio. Of course, the story proved to be untrue, but it’s a clear indication that the MSM is beginning to take bloggers seriously.
Here’s another one.
A local radio talk show host has quoted my blog word for word on a couple of occasions. I know he checks my blog because I see his email address under “referrers” when I check my stats. I don’t mind in the least, but I wonder how many news personalities get plagiarize their material from the net?
Say – – – how’s that internal CBS investigation on those phony TANG documents going?
The only way you’ll get MSM (andCBS for sure) to read you is to fax them from an Abaline KINKOS
Look, they still haven’t caught on that free exchange of ideas, and transparency of bias (rather than muffling an inconvenient voice, and false pretensions there is no bias), are the power and the glory of the blog. Why should we expect them to understand that it was just this smug, smart-ass condescending bi-coastal superior that got Kerry his head handed to him. And this same attitude about bloggers assumes the posters are liars and the readers are idiots.
Never underestimate the resentment that intentional insult, even mindless condescension, can cause, particularly in my area of the country, the South. Hell, that was actually the REAL cause of the Civil War: after about 200 years of beibng sneered at by the cultural elites of the day, we just by God weren’t gonna take any more. The 2004 election feels very familair to me on that score. And so does the type of scorn MSM is spewing on blogs.
CBS is going to wake up one day with their affiliates down to about 15, split between the coasts, and their stock worth about a nickel. We can tell them then, they never should have pissed on bloggers.
What do you mean the MSM is “wrong”? If they were just wrong, then roughly half the stories would hurt repubs/conservatives and roughly half would hurt dems/liberals. But it seems to mostly be mistakes that ‘just happen’ to hurt the Right and/or help the Left.
They’re not just wrong; they’re biased.