Cat got their tongues
Ten hours since the Jensen conviction and not a peep from Sykes, McBride, Fraley, Jordhal and McIlheran.
I guess that powerful right wing nut blogsphere has taken the day off. Good for them.
McBride is always asking where the "old" media is on stories that she thinks are important (insert: advance her point of view here.)
Seems like a good time to ask- Where's the right's "new media" on this one?
Silent.
It's kind of nice isn't it.
posted by Harris Kane @ 10:05 PM
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6 Comments:
you know...maybe we should give them a moment or two to grieve. Then we can feed them their lunch.
Well, of course it's not news. After all, as the defense said, everybody was doing it! And that's not newsy at all. Nope. Not when there's so much else to discuss, such as . . . the size of county boards, yeh, that's it! That's much more newsy than a Republican legislative leader breaking the law. . . .
And why are you ignoring the "citizen" webloggers who built the blogosphere without Sykes et. al? I get more readers than Fraley.
My excuse is I'm dealing with Milwaukee-like weather in Phoenix, AZ while watching the Brewers.
I see. It's a no-no to ignore a self-proclaimed media source that also is ignoring a story?
(Note to self re new acronym: SPAM, for self-proclaimed alternative media.)
The definition of news includes regularity of coverage and reliability for readers. No matter the excuse -- spring training or waiting for instructions on what to write -- those who are not regularly and reliably reporting for readers are not in it for the news.
They're in it for themselves, SPAMmer.
Btw, no matter the technology, citizen journalists have been around for a long time, writing letters to the editor -- and they didn't take time off.
They're in the paper today on this story.
Kenwood, read my weblog a little before spouting off. I'm a pundit and writer. If I make news it's once in a blue moon and good luck.
Plus, the lack of instant analysis doesn't mean one is ignorning anything. We have lives other than our weblogs. Heck, we might even want to think a little before spouting. Something you could learn to do.
Oh, I've read it a little, all it deserves, and you haven't shied from instant analysis at other times. The lack of logic and changing of the subject is evident there as here.
As for thinking through the situation to which Republican dominance of state politics has led us, that hardly has required instant analysis of those of us who have been watching what it has done to Wisconsin for almost two decades now.
That's because we read more than blogs -- and more than just the Milwaukee newspapers. And some of us have seen and experienced the effects first-hand.
It will be many decades before Wisconsin will recover from Republican corruption. It has been a long time building, and it will require a long time rebuilding. And I don't need the media in any form to make that news and tell me so.
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