LOL. I wasn't being dismissive of the deconstructors. I was teasing LB about his orgasm over his little role in the Big Bang
does not appear so to me..
perhaps a bit of parsing is in order
but i'm going to suggest you go back to the link i gave you, and link back to original post in which you indicate how 'incomprensible' it all is as the deconstructors do their work,
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lindy addresses your "incomprenshion" comment where he talks about the 'busy beavers' (the professionals and experts) taking satisfaction in their new found spotlight....
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and you respond with a "ten minutes of fame" and "stupid and stoned" comparison to woodstock....
if you conflated LB's role in that, it's quite unapparent at least to this reader
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So, it's just Rather, is it. I'm surprised at that. I would have thought maybe the MSM was the target. Not sure, so I left it open. Hmmmm
more conflation is what i see here karen....
i don't recall anyone conflating cbs's rathergate woes with the entire MSM, in fact little by little we have seen MSM take note and actually report on the rathergate forgery story....and have noted it here, perhaps if you had been following along.......
Whatever was going to happen was going to happen regardless of whether either you or I had anything to say about it here on PfP. One can hang on every new development and speculation or one can wait for the executive summary. We all have limited time and we all have priorities for it. How we spend that time is not an indicator of the importance we place on an event unless we are instrumental in that event. Which we weren't.
It is possible to recognize something as important without spending a week in a front-row seat, particularly for the preliminaries.
well speak for yourself karen....
you clearly have missed the story here, you're not part of it, you merely see yourself at an observer..."whatever will happen will happen" (huh? que sera sera???) perhaps, speculate on that within yourself if you must, but i prefer to deal with the facts as they have unfolded...and what i saw and what you still miss is that it was the ACTIVE participation of "the best and brightest" who brought their skillsets to bear down on a media dinosaur used to leaving it's rather (cough) large footprint without the challenge of those who are willing to expend the energy to "fact check their asses off"
if you want to be a watcher and not a meaningful participant, that's fine, just try to go easy on the dismissiveness in the process.
from the trib editiorial:
The implication that bloggers are slacker dust bunnies has delighted bloggers, the best of whom are lawyers, professors, scientists, renegade journalists and techies of various sorts, such as the brothers Johnson (Charles and Michael) at "Little Green Footballs," whose years of experience in state-of-the-art graphics and Web design at the "pixel level" enabled them to quickly duplicate the CBS memos and demonstrate their likely origin on a very modern computer.
All of which brings me to my premise that the blogosphere isn't just a challenge to journalism in its currently stagnant state, but a potential boon to problem-solving of a higher order.
The beauty of the blogosphere is that it is self-igniting, self-propelling and self-selecting, a sort of intellectual ecosystem wherein the best specimens from various disciplines descend from the ethers, converge on an issue and apply their unique talents.
Though virtually newborn, the blogosphere has blossomed exponentially in a matter of Earth-time seconds, from a few random voices to a mighty and diverse chorus of sometimes spectacular talent. Bloggers are the Big Bang of the Information Age.
It seems, therefore, not unreasonable to hope that as this new galaxy expands--with the best and brightest emerging, as natural evolution commands--bloggers might apply their immense energy and collective intellect to solving an array of human problems. |
