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Monday Morning Blogpocalypse (updated)

Mon, 02/14/2005 - 07:42 — kebernet

NPR looks at Internet rumors and blogs. Somehow Drudge doesn't get mentioned.

The Cole-Goldberg flamewar continues. As good as any early 90's Usenet I recall.

PressThink looks at the latest blog scalp collecting at CNN. Dan Gillmore also has something to say.

AmericaBlog's Aravosis says he has something big an new on gaypornster-turned-White House Press Corp shill JD "Jeff Gannon" Guckert... it's almost Drudge-like.

Update:

And you can always count on Fafblog for perpective:

Blogs: This Week's Get List

The past week or so has seen the blogborne destruction of Eason Jordan, Ward Churchill, and Jeff Gannon for a multitude of transgressions ranging from stupidity to shirtlessness. Well done my bloggy minions! Their heads adorn the walls of Castle Internet along with such other enemies of justice as Trent Lott, Dan Rather, and that fat kid who danced around in that Star Wars video.

Supreme High Blogarch Giblets directs you to this week's List of the Damned. Each of the following have commited unpardonable sins, crimes against bloganity! Giblets demands the ashen ruins of their professional and personal lives delivered to him by Friday!

# Bernard Mantwuse, professor of medieval studies at Brown University who has repeatedly claimed that Muslim hostility towards the West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries came about as a result of the crusades. Wrong, "professor"! Muslims hated the West because of freedom - the freedom of the feudal system.

# Lindsey Michaels, student editorial intern for the Phoenix NewTimes, yet another example of bias in the SCLCMMSMM*! At a closed-door lunch Michaels was overheard to remark that George Bush was "totally gay," a comment that is either deeply offensive to President Bush or deeply offensive to gays. Giblets chooses both!

# Ed Gorman, Sr., editor-in-chief of Highlights Magazine, whose tenure has made a mockery of the entire media establishment. Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter "M." What the hell is that supposed to mean! It doesn't mean anything! Giblets is furious!

*So-Called Lefto-Conservative Main Media Stream Media Media

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Comments

Mon, 02/14/2005 - 07:59 — atrox (not verified)

RE: Monday Morning Blogpocalyse

I heard that NPR story this AM on the radio, it was actually kind of funny. They had an audio clip of "Armstrong Williams" and a few other peeps saying [paraphrase]"there is nothing at all wrong with me taking the money and then reporting my "opinion" on the news[/paraphrase]. I had to laugh, in each case these "commentators" resigned their posts.

One thing though, they mentioned an NPR reporter (maybe Lak Shi Sming (sp?)) and said she had taken a $13500 grant from the UN to write a book. They said in the future no NPR correspondents will be allowed to do that but that in this case they stand behind their reporter. To that I say hogwash. Now I like the reporters on NPR very much and of course I recognize that 13 grand is far less than all the other conservative "pundits" were getting but lets call a spade a spade. If she took the money then thats bullshit and she is just as culpable as the rest (and no longer a "journalist"). NPR needs to stand up and be a beacon of fairness and straightforward reporting (as I think they often are, as evidenced by the very fact that they disclosed this at all, you didnt hear about the other guys when their own networks/papers/programs disclosed it) and in so doing needs to either fire this reporter (best option, yeah its harsh but come on it doesnt take a rocket surgeon to understand that accepting money from any political/government organization as a "journalist" is a conflict of interest) or at the very least preclude her from reporting on UN related matters (which I think currently is her specialty - and of course what the "book" the money was taken for was about, even though they never saw the manuscript).

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