cnredd said:
I don't know which is greater...
The
laugh factor of some of these websites or the
sad factor of those who gulp them down...
From the "
Tips for debate" thread...
What you and others believe to be partisan websites have hit a few home runs.... Raw Story, for instance, which has been scooping the mediawhores constantly by from a few days to more than 2 weeks. The stories are out there. However, the mediawhores, in their efforts not to offend those who by advertising from them, are usually mute until so many Americans, through blogs and other web sites know the story. Nobody knew about Jack Abramoff until the Liberal blogs exposed it. Nobody knew about the Dubai ports deal until Conservative blogs exposed it. Only when scooped to the extent that the mediawhores looked silly by not giving us these news items that the stories finally hit the mainstream media.
Add to that the fact that, sometimes, the mediawhores get scooped so badly that they out and out plagarize the material directly from the websites which scooped them. This story, for instance:
From Raw Story
From AP the following day
Here is the story about it from Larisa Alexandrovna. Since the issue has made its rounds, AP agreed to give Raw Story the credit if Raw Story agreed to take down its down scathing articles about AP, which had been getting a huge amount of hits on the internet. Yes, AP had to eat crow, and Raw Story is the website which broke that story.
There was quite a stink about that one, and the stink still fills the air after 2 weeks. Yet this is not an isolated instance. The mediawhores are more concerned with profits than news, so they can no longer be trusted to give accurate information.
Yes, I have quoted blogs instead of the mediawhores quite often, and a few times, after the flaming has died down and the stories all but forgotten, I have been able to say "I told you so", because the feces hit the fan to the point where the MSM had no choice but to finally make a story out of those stories.
This will be one of those cases, where sometime in the near future, I will once again be able to say "I told you so", and dont get mad if I gloat. Yes, the story comes from Truthout, but guess who the source is? John C. Eckenrode, who was the lead FBI investigator in the case. He is who you should be paying attention to, not whether the article is part of the MSM, which have been getting their collective butts kicked by the blogs for a while now.
Yes, this story has not been picked up yet, but it will be when the indictments are issued. At that time, I will gloat once again and say "I told you so". Then maybe you will learn something..... Or maybe not, and I will have another future opportunity to gloat over yet another issue.
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