Wall
Street Journal On Bloggers
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The Blog Mob
"Written by fools to be read by imbeciles."
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JOSEPH RAGO On Blogs
Rago is an established reporter
with the WSJ, and he has taken the 'Bloggers' to task.
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Dangerous Fools
How much more evil can exist?
Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a blog.
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Main Stream Media
It's the alternative media (common morons) versus the main
stream media (Larry Kings) . With the main stream media you get
quantified reporting, that is never slanted.
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Everyone With A Computer
Internet
technology, with it's ease of dissemination must be watched,
monitored, and filtered.
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Not On Par With Real Reporters
Bloggers are essentially bottom
feeders, living off the greats like Alan Colmes. They ride along
with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at
the scraps.
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Lack Of Quality Control
The larger problem with blogs, it seems to me, is quality. Most
of them are pretty awful. Many, even some with large followings, are
downright appalling.
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Bloggers Are News Thieves
These whores don't write the news, they tapped into the source,
and then alter it for their agenda.
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Instant Delivery
Blogs are the equivalent of pizza delivered instantly to mindless
Americans, as they sit on their fat asses watching TV.
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A Child's Diary
Blogging is an inferior medium,
its closest
analogue might be the (poorly kept) diary or commonplace book.
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Instant Opinions
The blogs tend to influence
politics, which is dangerous. You shouldn't disparage our great
leaders. What if Schummer, Feinstein, Bush, Cheney, Lantos, were put
in a bad light?
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Mob Mentality
The participatory Internet, in
combination with the chatroom, allows sites to interrelate, this
appears to encourage mobs and mob behavior.
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House Of Cards
The use of hyperlinks to confirm a source, no matter how
preposterous, convinces the unwary fool of authenticity.
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Ability To Reach Remote Audiences
An imbecile in England can talk to a conspiracy nut in New
Guinea.
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Predictable And Boring
The petty interpolitical feuding
mainly points out that someone is a liar or an idiot or both.
Because political blogs are predictable, they are excruciatingly
boring.
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Written For Imbeciles
The blogs, unlike newspapering, is "written by fools
to be read by imbeciles"--they have also demonstrated a remarkable
ecumenicalism in filling out that same role themselves.
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Good Writer Corrupted
Respected writers, frustrated with
the bloggers instant audience, quite eagerly trade integrity for an
enlarged discourse. The quarrel over one discrete set of standards
did a lot to pull down the very idea of standards.
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Stay Out Of Pool
Halls
Rago sees trouble in
River City, it's spelled with a capital B, and that stands for Blogs.
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Where Are All These Great Reporters That
Rago Describes?
You have the History Channel telling us about 4,000,000 Jews killed
at
Auschwitz,
in a two car garage, by bug spray,. Then you have the Sunday Talk shows
telling us about 'Little Persecuted Israel' fighting for democracy in
the mideast, as their soldiers shoot 8 yr-old kids in the head. How
about the Lebanon war, the one where Israel
strafed convoys,
bombed orphanages, and
assassinated four UN observers.
But, even that really isn't the point. Who cares about blogs anyway.
It really is up to the reader to decide fact from fiction. If Rago is
such a 'Guardian of Decency', that let him examine that cesspool called
Wikipedia, which passes itself off as the world's Internet
encyclopedia.
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