Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Atrios probably already blogged about this, but....
When Blogs Bite Back by Howard Kurtz
..."It's very nasty and personal and scatological," says Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank...
..."You want to pay attention to what legitimate critics are saying out there," Nagourney says. "In journalism, you screw up from time to time. But it's become so toxic -- attacks for the sake of attacks."...
...Some journalists are unperturbed. CNN analyst Jeff Greenfield likes many blogs and doesn't much worry about "the baked-potato brains who say you're a media whore. . . . On the whole, I'm real happy to know there are a lot of people watching with the capacity to check me. I don't think that's chilling. It's just another incentive to get your facts right."...
If they hadn't left out so much with their reporting when we first started war-drumming toward Iraq, they wouldn't have such a problem. The reporting I heard and saw, was very biased, during the Kerry vs Bush presidential run.
..."It's very nasty and personal and scatological," says Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank...
..."You want to pay attention to what legitimate critics are saying out there," Nagourney says. "In journalism, you screw up from time to time. But it's become so toxic -- attacks for the sake of attacks."...
...Some journalists are unperturbed. CNN analyst Jeff Greenfield likes many blogs and doesn't much worry about "the baked-potato brains who say you're a media whore. . . . On the whole, I'm real happy to know there are a lot of people watching with the capacity to check me. I don't think that's chilling. It's just another incentive to get your facts right."...
If they hadn't left out so much with their reporting when we first started war-drumming toward Iraq, they wouldn't have such a problem. The reporting I heard and saw, was very biased, during the Kerry vs Bush presidential run.
