Comments on: Ken Fuson’s Confusion

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:09:42 +0000

Came across your blog researching of all people Ken Fuson as part of a job assignment! I’m a fan of blogs, and have discovered there’s alot of great writing going on out there – just as good, if not better, than the blather you see in print.
Keep it up!

a fellow pajamahadeen!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:20:39 +0000

Hey LaShawn,

Sounds like Fuson could write for the Minnesota StarTrib. He’s aligned down to his last molecule.

I can’t get over how ready these MSMers are to deride and insult people who in many cases have truckloads of credentials and have never written an unreasoned or emotional sentence in their lives. Because some bloggers rant, it follows in the MSM logic that all blogs are rants.

Hmm.. because some TV anchors use fake documents, then all documents mentioned on TV news are fake….?

In the old days of the ’90s, you could tell just by reading that the Rush Limbaugh critics never actually listened to his show. Now they criticize the blogs they never read. Same old schtick.

Hope you’re getting some little something out of listening to the King of Flop talking to the Sheik of Shakedown… did you mean 5pm eastern or central, tomorrow…?

By: Tapscott's Copy Desk

Tapscott's Copy Desk — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:40:38 +0000

Prof Says MSM Coming After Blo LaShawn Barber has the goods on an MSM columnist who thinks he has the goods on bloggers. A fun and informative read, as LaShawn always is.

By: Steel

Steel — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:04:59 +0000

What a bozo. (bore+zero) Haven’t seen ya in a while LaShawn, stop by.

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:43:45 +0000

Too right Walter.
That’s one of the best 2 sentence summaries of the issue I have seen.

By: Walter E. Wallis

Walter E. Wallis — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:07:45 +0000

If the newspapers had published engineer letters about engineering or farmer’s letters about agriculture, the urge to blog would not have been so strong. Movie stars on nuclear power and pesticides just didn’t cut it.

By: Evon Bachaus

Evon Bachaus — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:11:16 +0000

“…why the Mainstream Media no longer matter”

Actually, it’s worse than that. They matter a little bit but are being held accountable within minutes of publication. That, to quote Saul Alinsky, is “outside their experience” and they have no idea how to handle it except to smear the bloggers. How long will it take the MSM to figure out that smearing bloggers isn’t working? BTW has ABC provided the Internet with a copy of the alleged “talking points memo” yet? Maybe they did learn something from Rathergate.

By: Warspite

Warspite — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:58:13 +0000

The blogger’s problem is that in order to function properly-as checkers and commentator’s on events and opinions-we need the MSM, especially the big metro dailies. This is NOT at all a 2 way street: they sure as hell don’t need the bloggers. Indeed, even tho press circulation(as well as TV news viewership)has fallen flat on it’s collective rear-end’s in recent years, it seems obvious that the “professional elite media class” has no problem in taking their most devoted readers and watchers(the bloggers)and trashing them as often and frequently as they can spare the ink or video tape.

The people who really hate the blog phenom are guys like you quoted from the DMR. There are tons of folks out there in blogistan writing better stuff than this bloke and not making a dime. No wonder he feels threatened-he should. He may actually have to work for a living in the near future instead of getting his non-researched, non-d\edited, non-greycelled screeds in the pages of a major metro daily.

By: Air Force Voices

Air Force Voices — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:13:13 +0000

An Easy Target
Are bloggers entitled to the same constitutional protection as traditional print and broadcast journalists? This is the focus in the

By: Cindy Swanson

Cindy Swanson — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:09:31 +0000

Then again, there’s people like James Lileks, who remains a mainstream columnist while maintaining his own blog! It can be done.

By: Vulgorilla

Vulgorilla — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:25:23 +0000

The blogs are the only place I can go to get the real scoop. The TSM (Terrorist Supporting Media) has been fabricating the news for so long that I wouldn’t trust them with a burnt match, let alone anything of importance….like the news. It sure does sound like sour grapes to me, but then what do people do when they find out they’ve been hoodwinked? The find an alternate source! Heh.

By: Lifeachiever

Lifeachiever — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:01:57 +0000

Great post! If no one is criticizing you, then you are doing something wrong.

The comments above are equally as good.

By: JoeS

JoeS — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:58:22 +0000

Gosh, my heart! The Des Moines Register does not consider blogging “legitimate”.

Arrogance like this plays into the alternative media hand. Dan Rather and Eason Jordan did not resign. They were fired.

I hope our corn husking columnist has heard of them.

By: mikem

mikem — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:37:26 +0000

While he does come out the gate shooting at bloggers, he actually takes a lot of shots at the ignorance and arrogance of his colleagues. There is hope for a journalist who makes fun of Dan Rather:

“Apparently they were tipped off by the phrases, ‘This is a forgery!’ and, ‘Let’s see if we can get Dan Rather to buy this’ stamped on several of the suspicious papers.”

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:30:14 +0000

I know we’re not liveblogging this MJ interview, but at 13:30 into the interview, I’m about to fall asleep. Is there not a trial going on right now?

And Jesse Jackson is asking him about pillow fights and his musical influences? What a joke.

La Shawn, you’ll have plenty to discuss on MSNBC.