The Blogging Machine
Roger L. Simon
captures the essential difference between old-school MSM (Main Stream Media) and current winners like FOX with this bit of dialog between Dan Ra
ther and his crony Ed Bradley:
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DAN RATHER: One would expect that the blogging machine which the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign has used for any number of purposes over their four years will start now, if it hasn't started already, to say, listen, Kerry-Edwards, for the good of the country, need to concede.
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ED BRADLEY: I'm sure it's started already. If we could tune into the Internet we'd see that people are already saying that now. That's certainly the drum the White House is beating.
Roger then comments:
bq. This pathetic exchange speaks for itself, but I have two questions:
bq. 1. Will Viacom stockholders stand for this nonsense from "Honest" Dan, et al as their numbers continue to tank?
bq. 2. Will The New York Times save what remains of their reputation by severing their relationship with CBS?
A reader of Roger's has this comment that about sums my thoughts up:
bq. Blogging Machine? Tune into the Internet?
bq. No wonder word processor documents baffled them.
Posted by DaveH at November 3, 2004 1:30 PM