Death of Old Media

[PRCalDude]

The Old Media is really letting the blogosphere have it lately:

The Power and Importance of New Media

On Meet the Press this past Sunday, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman railed against internet news sources, referring to them as an “open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information.” He continued to mock new media, suggesting that the American public is incapable of deciphering between facts, fiction and opinion, when he said that modems should have a warning label from the surgeon general that reads “judgment not included.” What Mr. Friedman cannot understand is that web-based information sources like blogs, wikis and vlogs (video blogs) are the new beat reporters and investigative journalists of our time

Mark Bowden just wrote some hit piece over at the Atlantic about right wing bloggers:

The Story Behind the Story

The hypocrisy men like this is truly astounding, for they embody everything they hate about bloggers. Friedman is basically a typical dhimmi see-no-evil apologist for globalization, Islamism, Chinese autocracy, etc.

Bowden goes on here:

What gave newspapers their value was the mission and promise of journalismâ??the hope that someone was getting paid to wade into the daily tide of manure, sort through its deliberate lies and cunning half-truths, and tell a story straight. There is a reason why newspaper reporters, despite polls that show consistently low public regard for journalists, are the heroes of so many films.

No, there’s a low public opinion of journalists because they’re lying bags of __. Does he care at all about Andrew Sullivan’s daily 5 Minutes Hates of Palin and other lies? Of course not. So much paranoia and utter garbage come from the keyboard of Andrew Sullivan that it’s not even funny. But I guess he’s on Bowden’s team, so he gets a pass.

[Tiribulus]

[quote]PRCalDude wrote:
<<< What gave newspapers their value was the mission and promise of journalismâ??the hope that someone was getting paid to wade into the daily tide of manure, sort through its deliberate lies and cunning half-truths, and tell a story straight. >>>[/quote]

The operative element here is the past tense.

[Gregus]

Old media is dieing. Good. They have become corrupt puppets and nothing more then a vehicle of propaganda. Good riddance. The internet is where there is real freedom of information. It’s amazing how much stuff shows up online and eventually forces the networks to take notice and report for risk of looking like the puppets that they are.

Glenn beck keeps a good tally on major stories and shows how many of the major networks bother to report about it.

[tom63]

Beck does a fantastic job.