By SN
Monday March 16, 2009
Washington Post – Kathleen Parker – Sunday, March 15, 2009:
The biggest challenge facing America’s struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry.
Yes, Dittoheads, you heard it right.
Drive-by pundits, to spin off of Rush Limbaugh’s “drive-by media,” are non-journalists who have been demonizing the media for the past 20 years or so and who blame the current news crisis on bias.
Unfortunately, the chorus of media bashing from certain quarters has succeeded in convincing many Americans that they don’t need newspapers. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press recently found that fewer than half of Americans — 43 percent — say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community “a lot.” Only 33 percent say they would miss the local paper if it were no longer available.
Constant criticism of the “elite media” is comical to most reporters, whose paychecks wouldn’t cover Limbaugh’s annual dry cleaning bill. The truly elite media are the people most Americans have never heard of — the daily-grind reporters who turn out for city council and school board meetings. Or the investigative teams who chase leads for months to expose abuse or corruption.
#56, Alphie,
Oh, I agree. We should have the LA Times play a copy of that tape on their front page for everyone to see. Then they can play the tape of Cheney and Bush butt poking each other.
In other words, you are just another ditto head idiot claiming bullshit about Obama in order to appease your ditto head leader, Boss Limpdick and his other maniacal ilk.
What you have done is allowed one delusional person to exaggerate a artistic performance into a political gathering and attach garbage to a political opponent. There is nothing to substantiate this bullshit except the raving, lunatic, screeching of some wanna be ditto head.
This is why print journalism is so important. It, at least, prints what is news and not what the ditto heads want them to print.
Mr. Fusion,
You are wrong. I rather have political entertainment that people know is entertainment and “professional journalistic” news that constantly attempts to brainwash people while they think they are getting FAIR or unbiased news. Why so much attention on Rush Mr. Fusion? Why not some of the hosts on TV, such as on MSNBC? Independent studies have shown that Rush’s audience is more informed than NPR audiences, so just like some people get the news from Jon Stewart, some get it from Rush. And unlike CNN who is afraid to offend its guests, Rush takes on dems and reps.