Comments on: Blogger Nation

By: Annice

Annice — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:38:40 +0000

I found your blog through the David Limbaugh site. and I think it is awesome that you are a woman, black, and conservative. To top it off you are not afraid to show it. Keep up the good work.

By: David Limbaugh

David Limbaugh — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:41:08 +0000

Journalistic Bias and Arrogance
With the Howard Fineman piece on the demise of the Mainstream Media (MSM), Rathergate, and other developments of late, we’re hearing a lot of talk about the bias of the mainstream media — even more than usual. What we all must remember here is that w…

By: Evon Bachaus

Evon Bachaus — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:28:42 +0000

After reading parts of the report and more commentary, I’ve decided that my previous fake memo was inaccurate. CBS commissioning the report was more like a criminal in handcuffs in one of those TV shows saying, “I want my lawyer.” The Internet had the goods on CBS and they wanted legal protection. So the memo might have read like this:

Give us legal protection!

Find (a)scapegoat(s)!

Name ‘em!

So we can moveon.

By: ratso ferrari

ratso ferrari — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:23:10 +0000

CBS news headline “Four Liberals Fired, Four Liberals Hired”.

By: Hokulea

Hokulea — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 03:12:37 +0000

I gave up on TV 15 years ago… let alone the the so called news that gets blatherd on and on…

I cant believe that this is going down so easily. To be sure if the shoe was on the other foot they would have demanded a Congressional investigation and lawsuits would be flying…

What’s worse I think garbage like this goes on all the time, this was just Sooooo way out there that it was easy to spot as trash and prove same.

As for blogging. I have been for 18 months and I would no more stop now than stop breathing. It is my voice in the marketplace of ideas and I love having it.

Keep up the great work La Shawn…Awesome!

By: Ron Vaughan

Ron Vaughan — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:19:02 +0000

Okay, I was in college in the sixties- I wonder where that puts me in all this!
In any case, I appreciate you bloggers and encourage your good work.
KEEP ON BLOGGING!

I think the so called “big three” are presenting the news much as they have for the past thirty years. They haven’t changed and if anything, they have become more arrogant and self serving. Consider how CBS has whitewashed and controlled the so called “investigation” of the Rather Memo. It is hard to believe Moonves actually thinks the public will buy it. They are withering on the vine and don’t it. Amazing!

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:05:06 +0000

By ‘the system’ I mean CBS and its environment.
So did I

By: marcus

marcus — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:42:36 +0000

LaShawn,
I firmly believe we are witnessing the slow death of network news as provided by the Big Three. It will take time, but I believe they will give up news altogether and concentrate on entertainment. As far as I’m concerned they are already irrelevant.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:06:18 +0000

You’re right, I should have added a smilie

I’m a baby boomer with a strong interest in blogs and blogging. I’m also a conservative Christian who doesn’t find a lot in common with many of my contemporaries. I really do appreciate your blog and try to check in every day. You get slammed enough, without your supporters inadvertantly being rude.

P.S. If I do start my own blog someday you will have been one of my inspirations.

By: LB

LB — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:25:58 +0000

I was expecting a smilie face, Pamela. I can’t tell if your joking or not. What I meant was that something siginificant or revolutionary happened in the lifetimes of people my age, born in the late 60s, who weren’t around when radio or TV were first invented. That’s it.

I think I need a vacation.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:19:35 +0000

For those of us still unborn in the 30s, 40s, 50s and part of the 60s, we finally have an invention or whatever it’s called, that we can call our own: the Internet, or more specifically, blogging. Join in new medium now while it’s still in its infancy.

ummmm. Lashawn does that mean, since I was born before the mid 60’s, that I’m not allowed to blog? Just asking.

By: Evon Bachaus

Evon Bachaus — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:04:29 +0000

My contribution is that, while I haven’t read the report, I have read Cal Thomas, Tony Blankley, Dave Barry, LGF, Powerline and you. I offer the following memo which is fake [I composed it myself] but I suspect might be close to accurate:

To Dick Thornburgh, Lewis D. Boccardi

From Royal High Muckety-Mucks at CBS

Date: Illegible

Re Report on the CBS 60 Minutes Wednesday Fiasco on TANG and President Bush

Your assignment is follows:

1. Don’t even discuss why CBS poured time, money and energy into a 30-year-old story on possible irregularities in the National Guard record of a man who has just spent the past three and three-fourths years as the Commander-in-Chief the military forces of the United States.

2. Don’t even think about applying the same standards to CBS that our investigators apply to objects of our investigations.

3. Don’t include anything that might expose CBS to criminal or legal action.

4. Don’t include anything that would give individual blogs
a. validity
b. credibility
c. publicity
d. energy [don't make them angry]

5. Show us the report first [six weeks lead time would be nice] before making it public so we can coordinate our damage control –which we know you can help us with–or recommend someone who can.

6. Most importantly, remember which side your bread is buttered on!

7. And, oh, yeah, of course, we want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, etc.

[Illegible signature(s)]

Just trying to show that the blogosphere can be creative at coming up with fake sources, too. Evon

By: actus

actus — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:49:38 +0000

‘And if they had cleaned house of their own accord, I’d agree with you actus.
That they only took action after bloggers shined sunlight into CBS’s newsroom puts the lie to that assertion.’

By ‘the system’ I mean CBS and its environment.

By: Sarah Schreffler

Sarah Schreffler — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:34:55 +0000

Perhaps…

Then I remember my own experience with blogging, and how it ended last March.
And I see that Nykol’s lost her job because of her blog. And I think maybe I’m just happy enough being a reader.

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:17:20 +0000

Mike b,
Good point. And the bloggers who aren’t after truth, but are more about an agenda, are easy enough to spot and are soon outed and then discounted.