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The Lament of David Brooks
by noteworthy at 8:39 am EDT, May 20, 2005 |
Maybe it won't be so bad being cut off from the blogosphere. That's how David Brooks begins his latest column, which happens to be about the recently retracted Newsweek story. What have the most powerful people on earth become? Whining media bashers. |
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RE: The Lament of David Brooks
by Jamie at 9:24 am EDT, May 20, 2005 |
noteworthy wrote:
] Maybe it won't be so bad being cut off from the
] blogosphere.
]
] That's how David Brooks begins his latest column, which
] happens to be about the recently retracted Newsweek story.
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] What have the most powerful people on earth become?
]
] Whining media bashers. Sure, media bashing is targeting the wrong people. Although, large portions of the media try to jump on ANY story that makes America and especially our soldiers look bad. I have many family and friends in the military, and many of them in Iraq and Afghanistan right now - I think we should be bashing the Americans who try to bash America and our troops - primarily liberals. |
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RE: The Lament of David Brooks
by noteworthy at 10:32 pm EDT, May 20, 2005 |
ibenez wrote:
] Although, large portions of the media try to jump on ANY story
] that makes America and especially our soldiers look bad. "News" organizations are competing for eyeballs, and not just amongst themselves. They are up against the same things as broadcast television and print media. They are driven by any story that will keep people tuned in. The details and their import are almost irrelevant, as should be clear from their tendency to run news ticker blurbs about Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton during an intense, live-from-the-scene report about a deadly suicide bombing. At the same time, it is a constant struggle to optimize the coverage among competing objects to bring in new viewers/readers, stroke the hobbyhorses of the junkies, and minimize churn. This is a challenge because the things that keep the hard core committed are often exactly the things that repel the much larger audience of recreational viewers. |
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The Lament of David Brooks
by Decius at 9:37 am EDT, May 20, 2005 |
] Maybe it won't be so bad being cut off from the
] blogosphere. I look around the Web these days and find
] that Newsweek's retracted atrocity story has sent
] everybody into cloud-cuckoo-land. Every faction up and
] down the political spectrum has used the magazine's
] blunder as a chance to open fire on its favorite targets,
] turning this into a fevered hunting season for the straw
] men. AKA the Bird Seller's Lament. The blogosphere is talking about newsweek's irrelevancy. I'm sure they'll take this column from Brooks as defensive main stream media blog bashing. Its not. There won't be any great controversy when people stop reading political blogs. The numbers will just quietly go down. The authors will be howling all the way... |
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RE: The Lament of David Brooks
by noteworthy at 10:19 pm EDT, May 20, 2005 |
Decius wrote:
] There won't be any great controversy
] when people stop reading political blogs. Stop? |
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