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June 15th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Again Glenn Greenwald has a salient point on this. It’s not just the MSM
that makes bad assumptions. The right wing push bad assumptions by wrapping
them in ‘conventional wisdom’.
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/06/fact-free-instapundit-inflicts-more.html#links
June 15th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
City Manager Resumes On-Line
http://extras.lowellsun.com/lowellsun/citymanager/index.htm
June 15th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
FYI
The resume link doesn’t work in Firefox (drat) so you have to use Internet Explorer (ick) to see the resumes.
June 15th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Lowellian, thanks for that link..AT least the Sun blocked out their street addresses and phone numbers!
June 16th, 2006 at 10:38 am
OMG…they really need a professional web designer on staff. How the heck did they manage to create a web page that doesn’t view in Firefox??
*shakes head in disbelief*
Also, I click on the resume links, and get a page not found error.
June 19th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Funny stuff, this watch-the-blogger press coverage. It looks like a glance or two make an expert.
I looked over the Maureen Dowd piece, and then returned. It’s worth reconsidering from several viewpoints. She might or might not be right about Markos’ future (I think I can call him that, even though unlike another blogger I could mention, I did not pose with him). Then again, very few of us bloggers aim for or have the skills and contacts to achieve his celebrity. If his bubble pops, it’ll be a grand explosion, but it won’t take us all with him.
Her insults about his sort wanting what she has and to be what she is may work the other way. She and her whole business are tired and of diminishing effectiveness and influence. Does she want to be on the rising side of the wave for a change? Almost certainly.
She points to his vanity in being taught how to look and present himself. Yet, for years she has prettified herself and written of her own glories. One wonders whether she aspires to be a Coulter-like critter that makes men drool, while still being a respected journalist (think Helen Thomas with an extreme, extreme makeover). So, her criticisms of Markos and by extension, bloggers, seems pot v. kettle.
To Lynne’s point about Old and New Media, Dowd and many other instant experts do not get it. Populism and journalism sometimes mix on some blogs. Those are powerful moments and beautiful posts, much more common on blogs than in newspapers.
I have to admit that there are still millions more cute-kitten or my-favorite-dinner blogs than political ones. Advocacy and reportage need more and even better entries, thank you very much.
The mainstream media seems not to be doing online journalism terribly well. A few, like the New York Times and Canoe.ca up North do a very respectible electronic newspaper. It’s not the same as Kos or LeftinLowell or any of thousands of citizens with PCs, a Net connection and a point of view. And don’t even mention what newspapers call their blogs. That is to laugh a cartoony laugh.
We’re new at this, but we’re getting more readers all the time and very slowly more influence. By the time MSM figures it out, we’ll be somewhere else.
It was only two years ago, that the experts convinced me that there would be so many blogs that you could never find what you want. That was wrong too.