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Along these lines, Virginia Trioli this morning introduced a segment on her 702 ABC show: “Wither blogging. It seems the much-hyped blogging phenomenon is disappearing. I say good riddance.”
Hey, at least during our brief reign we bloggers haven’t cost taxpayers a couple of hundred grand per year, which is the price paid (at least) for Virginia’s views. Her guest commentator for this segment was media lecturer Kate Crawford, who seemed slightly more fond of blogs than is her host; in fact, she said, some blogs are very good, and online audiences were becoming better at selecting quality blogs over “someone ranting about their cat”.
Then Kate named her favourite site. Daily Kos, she said, represented the very “top of the table” of global blogging. I don’t think Virginia had heard of it ... otherwise her opinion of this flash-in-the-pan medium would probably be higher.
If Daily Kos really does represent the “top of the table” then blogging probably is doomed.
OT, but budding Henry Higgenses should note the regional language usage - “top of the table” is a Sydney Rugby League expression. Southern States use “top of the ladder”.
Posted by The Mongrel on 2007 03 26 at 02:21 AM • permalinkTrioli demonstrating that she is yet another Luddite ABC dinosaur ... welcome to the Information Age, ABC Nanny!
The prollies are finding/sharing information outside of the MSM? Heaven forbid!
What of Margoyle?
Isn’t it time that the ABC was re-christened from ‘Aunty’ to ‘Nanny’ ... minder of the masses?
Oh, my, all these messages about the end….the end of the world….the end of humanity…..the end of free speech…..and now the end of blogging….when end should I worry about more?
/sarcasm.
I’m rather curious…...on what facts does Virgina base her
assertionopinion on? The decline of Webdiary?Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 26 at 02:28 AM • permalinkUnlike the blatherings of Trolli, taxpayers don’t have to stump up for whatever gibberish is posted on Al Gore’s invention (except of course for the ABCs own turgid efforts).
The sheer effrontery and sense of entitlement these gerbils exude makes me want to bang their empty heads together* (and swipe their well padded wallets and recoup some of the stolen goods recieved happily by these bottom-rung parasites).
*I reckon it’d sound like maracas.
The only way I find out what someone has said on the ABC, is if a blogger mentions it.
I used to be a regular ABC listener and watcher.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2007 03 26 at 02:32 AM • permalinkI haven’t listen to or watched the ABC in years and have never heard of Ms Trioli. I have been commenting at blogs for over 5 years, so I’ve watched it grow. Ladies and gentlemen you aint seen nothing yet. Unlike the ABC where you have heard the same tired halfbaked opinions and are subjected to their repitition ad nauseam.
BTW- I’ve heard other mutterings from the Ginger Grant Grabber, and she usually makes Trolli sound like Ann Coulter; she’s also an “audio artist” who produces dreadful elctro-bollocks much loved by pillowbiters well gone on MDMA. A veritable font for young communicators.
How appropriate that a presenter the ABC believes offers sharp analysis of current events should consign blogging to the dustbin of history when research shows that around half of the people who read blogs in China, Korea and Japan are those most likely to influence what happens in society. Or that the number of blogs searched by Technorati currently numbers over 72 million (up from 55 million last year). Or that Baidu (the China equivalent of Google) has established a popular blog search function for sites in Chinese. Or that the number of Chinese-language blogs in Hong Kong is going through the roof. Or that you can learn of a great number of things happening in greater China on BBS and blogs long before the media ever reports them.
Another one for Media Watch, no doubt.
Poor girl, if only she spent less time reading the Daily Kos and more time outside then she might not look like the love child of Morticia Adams and Peter Garrett
The Virgster may be suffering from that mysterious virus that is known to affect those who spend too much time hanging around at the ABC.
Known as the Terrylanium Virus - it causes sufferers to believe whatever they want to believe.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 26 at 02:44 AM • permalinkShe has a head for radio, and a brain for ridicule. Blogging, youtube, myspace - welcome to the 21st century you scared little child. Was that really just wishful thinking on her part? Does she feel threatened by bloggers? I think she has felt the barb from Tim once too often and the fangs have been unleashed. How childish (there’s that word again!).
Why does a lefty fear open discourse?
Why does she want it to die?
#8 I think the piece was probably inspired by this.
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2007 03 26 at 02:57 AM • permalinkDid she specify which kind of horses we should get?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 03 26 at 03:11 AM • permalinkThanks, JABL. I’m not surprised to hear that the blogging numbers are peaking, and probably dropping off.
Not everyone can be original all the time, or even be a good writer most of the time. But blogging has opened up the world to a lot of people who can write, but either lacked the means or the time to do so. Blogging closes that gap, and supports a wider spectrum of people and interests.
However, more people than ever can offer their results to the world. But as one science fiction editor (I forget who) put it, “90% of science fiction—90% of anything—is crap.” So a lot of blogs failing is hardly surprising.
I imagine magazine and book editors can possibly provide some supporting evidence (i.e., how many submitted manuscripts are rejected) of that 90% rule, since a lot of people try to break into the writing world by that world.
So, nope, I don’t expect blogging to softly and silently vanish away. Some blogs will shut down, others will rise in their place. Rather like the authors of books, come to think of it.
I expect blogging numbers will level off in a year or two, at a lower level than now. But blogging, by and large, will stay for a while yet.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 26 at 03:17 AM • permalinkJim, I expect she was talking about the horses that we rode in on. ;-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 26 at 03:18 AM • permalinkTrioli really is intellectual mutton dressed up as intellectual mutton.
I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she has that view given the sheltered workshop environment of the ABC.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 03 26 at 03:36 AM • permalinkIt seems the much-hyped blogging phenomenon is disappearing. I say good riddance.
As a just-this-minute newcomer to blogs, and after hearing Virginia’s devastating prediction, I feel like the guy who arrived at the bucks party just as the stripper was leaving in her minder’s car. Thanks for nothing Triolli!
Re: #24, the article also said that when blogging eventually “dies” as a cultural phenomenon, the global blogging population will probably end up between 30 and 100 million.
By that measure, of course, neither The Australian nor the ABC was ever alive to begin with.
Posted by blandwagon on 2007 03 26 at 03:52 AM • permalink#27, TRJS: But as one science fiction editor (I forget who) put it, “90% of science fiction—90% of anything—is crap.”
IIRC, that was Theodore Sturgeon.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 03 26 at 03:54 AM • permalinkThe Deathshead on a stick, a Mckew clone but not quite so old and tatty -has her sharp little fangs hooked into the public purse and won’t be booted out until she’s offered an A.L.P. position.
It’s that pop eyed optomist Brissenden who annoys me the most. Optimistic that the mealy mouthed one (rumour has it that he can rant and rage with the worst of them) will make it to Ruddministry…When Virginia finally gets her safe ALP seat (most likely representing western suburbs in which she’s never set foot before her preselection), I’m sure blogs like this will be around to see her off from her career in newspapers and radio.
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 03 26 at 04:09 AM • permalinkI do rather enjoy reading these people who seem to think blogging is doomed. You get that in the UK as well. I think they think because everyone listens to them that if they declare it dead it will be. Arrogance much?
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge on 2007 03 26 at 04:13 AM • permalinkAfter 9/11, blogs were how I got up-to-the-minute accurate news about what was going on, details I couldn’t find in newspapers or broadcast sound bytes. Blogs brought down that self-important gasbag Dan Rather, and exposed fake-but-accurate news for what it was. Blogs are still fact-checking an agenda-driven MSM. Disappear? Not bloody likely.
Still on? Stubborn bastard aren’t you, Blair.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 26 at 04:18 AM • permalinkSomewhat off-topic: This post by Ace is excellent both in the video linked and in the comment section. Thought you all would like it.
Re: the end of blogging - What we’ll likely see are more evolutions of the format and structure of blogging until something with mass appeal and commercial viability hits. Bloggers today are mere artisans. In a decade or less it will have sorted itself out and become an industry. We have yet to see the linking of field reporters and blogs except in the most primitive sense like Bill Roggio and Michael Yon. The whole process needs to become faster, tighter, and more reliable. It will.
Posted by The Apologist on 2007 03 26 at 04:24 AM • permalinkGrimmy - I have it on good authority that ice core samples show a sudden decline in blogging at or around the point that polar bears got bored of the north pole and started their slushy iceberg exodus. Unfortunately the blogging levels lag the polar bear levels by 800 years or so, but if we make the graph small enough and really squiggly no-one will notice.
702 Mornings with Virginia Trioli
Mornings with Virginia Trioli continues keeping you informed, amused, entertained and inspired each weekday morning from 8:30.Any chance the ACCC can look into this transparent case of “false and misleading” advertising?
The offending words being, informed, amused, entertained and inspired
These words, in the name of accuracy, should be re-determined as manipulative, unamusing, boring and well, boring again….
Its kind of funny. The net and blogs saw the rebuttal to “an incontinent truthiness” reach a huge audience by word of blog alone.
If it wasnt for blogs I would never have heard of it, and the GW propaganda machine would have ground on with a much greater chance of ignoring dissent.
Instead they are being forced to admit errors, defend their arguements and improve their theories (I think it used to be called good scientific practice).
This was the original idea of a publicly funded arm of the media, it would allow dissenting views to be heard. The ABC has long abandoned its reason for existing and should be scrapped.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 26 at 04:55 AM • permalink#16, Hanyu,
that’s an interesting point. The irony being that Trioli, Fran and the rest of their coven have great delight in talking about the democratic issues associated with David Hicks but have no understanding of the internet and blogging as examples of the only real democracy that many in the world have.
By the way, an excellent HK blog is Hemlock (its not me) for an amusing lookm at things political.
Trioli looks as if she is going to burst sometimes with her sense of unbridled self-importance.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 26 at 05:17 AM • permalinkWill the world finish if the trifecta of Kelly, Trioli and Gillard all find decent haircuts?
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 26 at 05:23 AM • permalink#20 I don’t know if that is a pisstake or not - it wouldn’t surprise me if it were for real - but that breaks me up LOL!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 26 at 05:33 AM • permalink‘online audiences were becoming better at selecting quality blogs over “someone ranting about their cat”’.
Kate Crawford better be careful,
Mr BeanJeremy Sears may well sue over this obvious pussy smearPosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 26 at 05:43 AM • permalinkTeach Me Tonight is a popular song, one verse of the lyrics below:
Let’s start with the ABC of it,
Roll right down to the XYZ of it
Help me solve the mystery of it,
Teach me tonight!Yes Virginia there is more to life then the ABC of it.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 03 26 at 05:54 AM • permalinkOh, I don’t know, I quite like Daily Kos, especially articles like this…which unfortunately are all too accurate.6 months
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 06:04 AM • permalink#45, bondo:
If we simply recycle graphs showing EU economic growth over the last full decade but relabel them to better suit our purposes, that would save on administrative overhead.
Or do you think we should do the full Lancet and actually gin up some apparent paper trails that seem to suggest we actually collected raw data before we make up the graphs?
Then Kate named her favourite site. Daily Kos, she said, represented the very “top of the table”
Daily Kos?
Daily bloody Kos, the home of some of the most morally bankrupt and depraved moonbats in the entire cosmos, is “top of the table”?!How the hell did so many moonbats, socialists and outright communists and fascist cheerleaders take control of the ABC?
Bloody Kerry “Red Kezza” O’brien, the snitty little commie bastard and his ilk, and their obscene propaganda and bias, have a greater bearing on general public opinion than the Prime Minister.
The ABC has brainwashed half my relatives into believing Bush and Howard are the antiChrist and his deputy for God’s sake.Communists AND fascist cheerleaders..?
Wouldn’t that be the ‘diversity of opinion’ the conservative stacked ABC Board is after?
Perhaps the public pay more attention to Kerry O’Brien rather than the Prime Minister because Kerry isn’t as prolific liar as the PM ?
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 06:46 AM • permalinkI enjoy Tim Blair’s blog and have done so for quite some time as well as his former input to The Bulletin, acknowledging his ability to earn a living by being a deliberate iconoclast, but I must make a couple of points here, simply out of fairness.
Virginia Trioli is on the record, in no uncertain terms, as having no political aspirations.
If you actually do listen to her show, you will know that she takes some pains to give everyone the proverbial “fair go” and to be balanced. Try her occasional interviews on the Sunday Arts program - you may not like them or agree with them but she does a hell of a better job than any of you wankers could.
She doesn’t have a mortgage on bias - just read the above comments to find no end of one-sided, uninformed bullshit. Are you suggesting that the likes of Laws and Jones are impartial?
Honest to God, most of you morons should have been drowned at birth.
“...just read the above comments to find no end of one-sided, uninformed bullshit.”
And that’s on a good day! Usually its just wall-to-wall Islamophobia and racism.
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 07:10 AM • permalinkNow that youbie, mentions it, I do kind of dig Virginia and, and… she does seem kind of fair.
Why can’t more people here be reasonable? Why can’t we all just get along?
If only there was some way that we could test babies who look like they may suggest that Laws and Jones are impartial at some time in the future…and then quietly drown them.
I guess, as John Lennon said, at least we can imagine.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 26 at 07:14 AM • permalinkis this thread about Virginia Trioli or for virgin trolls?
the woman’s as balanced as phatty phil
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 26 at 07:15 AM • permalinkHonest to God, most of you morons should have been drowned at birth.
I was.
This is my afterlife, cretin. And your bed is full of spiders evermore!
(Evil cackling laughter echoes through the blogiverse…)Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 26 at 07:21 AM • permalinkThe reduction in bloggng numbers is no surprise at all. There will be fewer but higher quality blogs as the idea develops. I can remember when the internet first got really going in the early 1990s. The first thing everyone did was put on their own personal page talking about their interests etc ( of which blogs are just development). Soon enough most of these pages fell into disuse. It takes a lot of energy to constantly write things and when you realise that no-one is reading it then giving up is common. On the demand side, we only have so much time to read so most people tend to stick to only a few favourite blogs. Tim’s is the only one I regularly visit and is the only one I occasionally comment on. When you put those factors together its predictable that blogs will close and consolidate and become more professional. People who predict total demise are engaging in simplistic linear reasoning. Hardly uncommon from journalists.
Showdown At The OK Trioli.
Sherriff Trioli: “You Blogs better get out of town fast. We’ve been watching you, and you just don’t measure up to the standards of this here EAMA town. Ship out, or it’s a one way ticket toGoreBoot Hill.”
Deputy Kosophile: “You may as well get used to the fact that Old Media Rules. Just toe the line and nobody gets hurt. We don’t want no changes lessen it be the stoppin’ of them fossil fuels”
Citizen YouBet:“You’re darn tootin’ Sheriff. I always said you had no political haspirations, even when they all said you did and only moved from Melbourne to aggrund ... aggerndize ... boost yerself! These here Sydney Yokels are lucky to avoid drownin’ at birth - mayhaps they’ll soon drown anyways like them poly-bars!#71.
Oh my,...I almost fell asleep but perked up when I heard the speaker talk about the US being “...the least imperialist and least bigoted nation on earth”. The least imperialist…hmmmm…
Its kinda boring hearing these once liberal, neophite neo-cons rant about how their former comrades “hate” their homeland. Boring because we know that they know there is a difference between disliking a people and disliking their government.
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 07:42 AM • permalink#64 Communists AND fascist cheerleaders..?
You leftists just can’t get enough of creeps like Chavez, Castro, Che Guevara, Stalin, Mao, Hitler and his National Socialists, Ahmadinejad and Iran’s fascist theocracy, etc.
Wherever brutal totalitarian regimes exist and humanity and freedom is being crushed, people like you are on the sidelines cheering it on and planning ways for their neighbors to share the same fate.Disgusting.
All we are say-ying
Is give Virginia a chanceAll we are say-ying
Is drown people who suggest Laws and Jones are impartial at birth…Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 26 at 07:50 AM • permalink#79. Chavez, the elected President who was kidnapped by a gang of military thugs which Washington supported?
Certainly many misguided Leftists have supported dictators like Stalin and Mao but I’d be surprised if any supported Adolf Hitler. That was more the style of Western ‘democrats’ like Winston Churchill.
Speaking of brutal regimes…I’m thinking, Cuba under Batista, El Salvador in the 1980s, Chile under Pinochet.
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 08:09 AM • permalink#84. No, I watched about 5 minutes before I started feeling ill…
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 08:11 AM • permalink“Leftism cannot exist through peoples free choice, so it’s supporters rob people in order to survive.”
That’s very profound. Perhaps you should go tell the Venezualan electorate who freely elected Chavez?
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 08:15 AM • permalink#85 Cuba under Castro? Does that factor in there? Cambodia under Pol Pot?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 26 at 08:19 AM • permalink#66 “just read the above comments to find no end of one-sided, uninformed bullshit”. “Uninformed” is the word.
One and a half years ago I knew little of blogs and had never read one. Then something roooly strange happened. Some Danes published a few cartoons, world wide protests ensued, riots erupted, buildings were burnt, people were slain.
I could find not a solitary image in the MSN or on “my” ABC of these cartoons. Ordinarily I couldn’t have given a toss, but it seemed strange that we were not permitted to see what was behind such world-wide carnage. But the MSM had decided that I should remain “uninformed”. Virginia and her ilk knew better. It was for my own good.
So I Googled it, found this blog and the cartoons and have been reading it and many others (left and right of politics) ever since. You sound like someone that would like to see the proletariat eternally uninformed, or at least informed in a manner that you deem to be correct.
As to the “drowned at birth bit” - lighten up, peruse the heavens, smell the roses, and listen to the birds or you’re a monty for a premature coronary.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 03 26 at 08:23 AM • permalink“You sound like someone that would like to see the proletariat eternally uninformed, or at least informed in a manner that you deem to be correct.”
No need, that’s the role of the corporate media.
Posted by LuisPosada on 2007 03 26 at 08:29 AM • permalink#91 - Luis, old son, both Virginia and you have missed my point - that’s exactly why I read blogs. I finally saw through Pravda and Isvestia.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 03 26 at 08:41 AM • permalinkCertainly many misguided Leftists have supported dictators like Stalin and Mao but I’d be surprised if any supported Adolf Hitler.
Well, a whole bunch of National Socialists voted for him, over 17 million in 1933.
Interestingly, the term “Nazi” is a short form of Nationalsozialist.
So, the Nazis were socialists, how about that.O/T just listened to Phatty slather over John Pilger- according to the Pilge there was no cold war between the west and the USSR- it was between the USA and ’ black and brown people’ to steal their resources’- who knew?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 26 at 09:04 AM • permalinkAha! So all the ignorant people who think that Alan Jones and John Laws are impartial will have their babies at coastal hospitals, and be drowned by surging water levels caused by global warming.
Then the people left over will all be much nicer to Virginia Trioli and she will no longer be discussed on nasty blogs which nobody reads anyway.
Virginia can then be Queen of the World and she will be greatful for our help and allow youbet, luis and me to all the taxpayer funds we need.
And no longer shall we have to be bored by the misconception that we don’t know the difference between the people and the government! Oh so boring!
It is all coming together now, you poor ignorant people who think Laws and Jones are impartial! Prepare for the great flood, suckers!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 26 at 09:09 AM • permalink#98 - I’ve heard Pilger talk of these “brown people” before. Who the hell are they? Not Africans or Asians. Are they latins with the olive complexion? I come up very brown after a few weeks on the beach. Am I one of them? Very confusing.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 03 26 at 09:10 AM • permalink#91- Yup, that corporate meeja- a veritable hotbed of rabid neocons, libertarian loons and frothing god-botherers. That’s why Ch10 dedicated 2 hours of Sunday prime time to shill for Al Gore, and Fairfax dedicates front page space daily to the cause of disabling the planned worldwide caliphate. That’s when they’re not debunking climate alarmism, failed social engineering experiments and calling for the dismantling of welfarism. And then there’s that cabal of Karl Rove shadow operatives, Sixty Minutes. Let’s not forget the 6.30 freak shows on 7 and 9, telling lazy whingers to get jobs and stop expecting govenment to cuddle them from cradle to grave.
I hope you’re not going to spend your share of the S11 payout in nasty corporate CD stores, or Maccas now. Or does your mum still do all your discretionary spending?
And every sentence shall have an exclamation mark!
By law!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 26 at 09:14 AM • permalinkBlair’s Law at work.
Anyone care to venture a caption?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 26 at 09:21 AM • permalinkHonest to God, most of you morons should have been drowned at birth.
God, please take note ... and the remainder of we morons ... drowned when we’re a lil’ older?
you bet ... the venture capitalist?
... or the Nitschke blogger?And that’s on a good day! Usually its just wall-to-wall Islamophobia and racism.
The unproven racism claim, yet again ...
Seems this woman is on par with another despicab;e example of Australian Journalism who must love his Daily cos
Cairns very own expert on Islam: Gavin King
He Joins the ranks of islam’s useful idiots.#24 Just Another Bloody Lawyer
Thanks for that link - I was wondering what happened to Lindsay Lohan’s blog - just as I was getting into it - poof! it disappeared!
This I like - a blog with all Barbra’s intellect on it
On Streisand’s official website, a front page link reads: “Click here to read Barbra’s blog.” The link leads to a blank page.
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 03 26 at 09:39 AM • permalinkIt’s the Pauline Kael phenomenon in action: “How can blogging possibly be influential? Nobody I know reads them! So let’s just ignore them…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 26 at 10:25 AM • permalinkBoring because we know that they know there is a difference between disliking a people and disliking their government.
What a pity so few of them attempt to make that distinction. If you doubt the left doesn’t hate Americans as a people, just get their candid opinions of, say, southerners or church-goers.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 26 at 10:38 AM • permalinkBoring because we know that they know there is a difference between disliking a people and disliking their government.
Boring when a troll doesn’t recognize that in a democracy, they are largely one and the same, unlike in those totalitarian countries that most trolls seem to favor. So if you hate, say, the government of the US or Australia, you are admitting that you hate the people of those countries.
Certainly many misguided Leftists have supported dictators like Stalin and Mao but I’d be surprised if any supported Adolf Hitler. That was more the style of Western ‘democrats’ like Winston Churchill.
Actually, Hitler was quite admired by the “progressives” of his day. Rational planning and all that.
Churchill never supported Hitler, and on the one chance he had to meet Hitler—upon Hitler’s rise to power—Churchill made it clear his first item of business would be questioning the propriety of race-based discrimination against the Jews, and the meeting was canceled.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 26 at 10:52 AM • permalink“Certainly many misguided Leftists have supported dictators like Stalin and Mao but I’d be surprised if any supported Adolf Hitler.”
LOL. As if national socialists weren’t just another flavor of leftist (totalitarian) ideology.
Commies all over the world supported the Nazi-Soviet alliance, btw (including Stalin and his henchmen obviously).
Does this surprise you?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 26 at 11:39 AM • permalink‘Along these lines, Virginia Trioli this morning introduced a segment on her 702 ABC show: “Wither blogging. It seems the much-hyped blogging phenomenon is disappearing. I say good riddance.”’
Don’t care for the competition, eh?
Since the advent of the internet, I rarely listen to the radio, and almost never watch television.
Good riddance to both radio and television, I say. Who needs these corporate/state controlled, and outmoded mediums?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 26 at 11:45 AM • permalink#99 Francis H
Corporate media? For an anti-Castro Cuban exile you sure seem to use the same rhetoric as dear old Fidel.
That’s because he’s a clumsy fake, thinking we’re too stupid to see it. Thing is, he’s too dense to realize we’ve seen that sleight of hand more times that I care to recall. Evan Sayet made him feel ill in 5 minutes because he realized right off that it was HE, and those he admires, who were being described. I can’t imagine going throught life as a disenchanted utopian, demanding the “system” be torn down because it can’t be perfect… What an utter waste.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 26 at 12:07 PM • permalink#120 Dave Surls
Commies all over the world supported the Nazi-Soviet alliance, btw (including Stalin and his henchmen obviously).
Does this surprise you?
If anything, the Socialists and Communists raged for Hitler’s head even more than conservatives because he betrayed the Pact. They felt as if they, personally, had been stabbed in the back.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 26 at 12:15 PM • permalinkI’m reminded of two unrelated items:
1. Per the noted philosopher, Yogi Berra, “Nobody reads blogs anymore. They’re too popular.”
2. In his resignation letter, the head of the US Patent Office in the late nineteenth century said he was quitting “because everything has been invented.”
“Yes, Virginia, there is a blogosphere.”
By blogging, we are all missing the really vital mainstream news!a prayer
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 26 at 01:44 PM • permalinkMaybe so, Rob, but stealing in the name of The People™ is noble.
/tenured academicPosted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 26 at 02:36 PM • permalink“If anything, the Socialists and Communists raged for Hitler’s head even more than conservatives because he betrayed the Pact.”
I’d be pissed too (if I was a commie-loving left wing twat). The Soviets had a perfectly fine mass-murdering, totalitarian police state, and their fellow totalitarians broke their alliance, attacked them and messed it all up.
The nerve of those Nazis.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 26 at 03:27 PM • permalink“I see the first thing Chavez did was steal oil facilities, and steal land.”
Nah, the first thing he did was try to overthrow the Venezuelan government by force, then he got elected, then he started stealing stuff, then he started whining that someone tried to overthrow HIM by force.
Normal stuff for Latin American dictators.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 26 at 03:29 PM • permalinkJust been listening to Alan Jones and John Laws - must say I was impressed by their impartiality.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 26 at 06:58 PM • permalinkWhat the morons from the Left (and their friends at the ABC) do not understand is that Alan Jones, John Laws and their ilk are not journalists. Nobody listens to them for news. They are media commentators. Nobody pretends that they are impartial - it’s not their job. That’s what the news bulletins are for.
The difference with Virginia and her comrades is that I don’t pay Mr Singleton a cent (or 8 of them). But as a tax payer, I have no choice in funding “our” ABC.
And as such, they are not entitled to bias.
The problem with the ABC is that the bias is absolutely everywhere. It pervades their “objective” news and current affairs.
In the real world, Laws and Jones must perform. The proles vote with their ears. There is a reason why the two Chardonnay’s ratings on 2UE are falling through the floor.
The sooner the collective is privatised, and the sooner they have to pay for their middle class guilt trip, the better for all of us.
Posted by FreeSpeechFascist on 2007 03 26 at 11:15 PM • permalinkBLOGGING DOOMED
Y’all sure that’s not a misspelt “Blogging Domed” ?
Blogging as an activity has peeked and the numbers of bloggers and blogs is beginning to recede and as a graph would look something like a dome.
At least that would make sense, rather than if the writer really meant doomed, in which case, the writer must have his/her head up and locked.
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