Ace,

I can load your site in Firefox, but not in IE. Another nail in the coffin of IE I guess.

Hmmm ... I read my own site in IE. So I think that might just be some problem with your version of IE, or some conflict you have going on.

It's as simple as this- The 'professional media' is a priesthood. Their powers are derived from a higher power. No one may preach the word or enter the sacred sanctuary before first undergoing training in J-School.

There may have been a time when J-School was necessary. But can I ask an impertinent question? What EXACTLY is taught in J-School that is so important as to be necessary to reporting?

Editing? Fact checking? Objectivity at all costs? If this is what is being 'taught', then it is clear to me that vast swaths of the current High Priests of the MSM were playing hacky-sack the day these lessons were taught.

Save the lectures on how 'professionally trained' journalists are the only ones who can be trusted with the scary power of writing about other people's lives. It's bullshit. A chimp can do it. And judging by some bylines, often does.

So what's really going on here? Stark-raving terror, that's what. Blogs didn't EXIST 5 years ago. They're everywhere now. They're storming the ramparts. They are watching the King's men. And occassionally, they commit regicide against particularly lazy, arrogant kings themselves.

This is NO DIFFERENT than corpulent, lazy UAW workers screaming bloody murder 20 years ago about how "ROBOTS WERE GOING TO BUILD UNSAFE CARS AND PEOPLE WILL DIE". That was all bullshit. The reality was, some fat bastard with no skills but a great Shop Rep and bankruptcy-inducing salary was on the chopping block, and he was going to do whatever he could to keep the robots from doing what he claimed was a "highly skilled job" but was in reality...well. something a brainless robot could do.

This is not to say bloggers are brainless. This is to say that, for years, journalists have claimed that their job is hard, and that it takes intellegence, guts, and a special membership in the club to execute. And that is being revealed, every day, to be a load of crap.

It's over. Entrenched positions cannot fight a defensive battle to win. And that's what the MSM high priests are doing. They refuse to embrace change, and so are destined to be run over by it. They're every bit as totally fucked as that beer-bellied lazy slob watching a robot arm being tested in the next plant over.

I might be wrong, but it sure sounded like "welcome to the potty" to me.

Andrew Ferguson once referred to Gergen as "a goggle-eyed mellon head". Can't say that this contributes significantly to the discussion, but we need to make sure this nominal Republican and wretched opportunist stays out of politics, and Ferguson's delightful description, if spread around, might be just the extra touch needed to make Gergen permanently and irretrievably ludicrous.

From the New American Dictionary of Political Hypocrisy, 3rd ed.

scrutiny (SCREW-tin-ee) noun The act of looking closely at something
when done by Democrats: an essential component to successful democracy; a great public service
when done by Republicans: a partisan witch-hunt atrocity; "McCarthyism"

From the New American Dictionary of Political Hypocrisy, 3rd ed.

scrutiny (SCREW-tin-ee) noun The act of looking closely at something
when done by Democrats: an essential component to successful democracy; a great public service
when done by Republicans: a vicious partisan witch-hunt atrocity; "McCarthyism"

I believe the full comment should have been written like this ... "Were they CEO's of failing companies, who had made poor decisions that cost their shareholders money and their employees jobs, the media would of course have little qualms about exposing them and driving them from office. All the while shrieking about the sweetheart tax deals and comlicity within the Bush Administration.

That's right, nothing to see here. Move along.

Nice take on the subject:

http://www.command-post.org/desk/archives/018915.html

Spank me!