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Beating up on bloggers is so 2005


Must mean we’re doing something right.  From Think Progress:

Last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow showed a clip of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) complaining about being criticized by “some blogger” sitting “in their parents’ basement.” Maddow — who later said she saw herself as “a blogger on TV” — did the show in her pajamas to show solidarity with bloggers….

Conservatives love to blast bloggers. Defending Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Scarborough mocked bloggers “just sitting there, eating Cheetos” in “their underwear,” while Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) complained that bloggers add “vituperation toxicity” to the political debate.

Even Dick Feagler’s railing on bloggers was literally years ago.  Come on people, let’s stop with the reactionary behavior.

Meanwhile, Shepard Smith continues to sound like a grounded, reasonable, reality-checking journalist:

Hurricane Katrina changed him forever, but I confess, I didn’t really watch him or know about him before then, I think.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:01 pm November 12th, 2008 in Blogging, Media 

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11 Responses to “Beating up on bloggers is so 2005”

  1. 1 lovebabz on November 12th, 2008 7:14 pm

    Will somebody please give that woman a platter of cheese to go with that WHINE!

    They only whine because they themselves have not mastered or even bothered to use this brave new social media.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on November 12th, 2008 7:19 pm

    Well – to be fair, the pressure point she was referring to was the worst one probably in the campaigning (re: suggesting she didn’t give birth to her child) but on the other hand, again – the complaint is very 2005 because blogs have been a part of the voices in political campaigns, in support and in opposition, for a few years now and all candidates have to figure out how to deal with that.

    Using that ancient bloggers in pjs thing is just really really so unpersuasive.

  3. 3 Ben K on November 12th, 2008 9:38 pm

    Rachel Maddow. sigh. I guess I better get used to hearing about her now too along with her sidekick whose show is right before hers.

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on November 12th, 2008 9:46 pm

    Who is on before Maddow? Mom of three without Tivo – I watch very little television.

  5. 5 Ben K on November 13th, 2008 12:54 am

    Mr. Olbermann

  6. 6 Loraine Ritchey on November 13th, 2008 9:36 am

    or citizen journalists ;)
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/11/the_role_of_citizen_journalism.html

  7. 7 Jill Miller Zimon on November 13th, 2008 9:43 am

    Ha – Ben – one of my kids was working out in our basement and had the TV on and it was Colbert – in the 8-9pm slot I thought – so – but they are different channels? See – I really have no right to be discussing talking heads – I just don’t watch enough lol.

  8. 8 Oengus on November 13th, 2008 11:48 am

    The media ventures into the internet looking for angles, they love and hate it.

    I have to admit that some of the content on the net is really very bad, twisted and distorted. It’s like being able to read peoples minds, and some of it really should never be written or read. I see it sometimes as seeking a kernel of corn in a giant pile of fecus.

    You know what they say if you play in the mud you are going to get dirty.

    Very critical, hyper critical…it feeds the malaise. Are you being enlightened or mislead? You know part of being ignorant is that you are too ignorant to know that you are, and ignorant has tenses, such as lacking knowledge or lacking compassion or empathy. Not even accurate, hurtful as well, totally ignorant.

    Keep in mind that a thought converted into composition becomes distorted. Some not as good as others, it is an art or a talent. The ego factor is huge, at all levels of the media.

    I do not enjoy Maddow, she is too cynical and often childishly sarcastic. She uses facial expression to add drama. Like the overtly campy gay man, entertaining for a while, then eventually it gets annoying. Do not hold your breath waiting on a profound revelation coming out of the Rachel Maddow show, a pretty liberal cynically humor is what she is all about…if we had to slide quarters into the cable box would you for her show? I suppose it is all related to how you like your news served up?

  9. 9 Jill Miller Zimon on November 13th, 2008 11:49 am

    Loraine – thank you so much for that! I was interviewed just yesterday for an article about something similar.

  10. 10 Oengus on November 13th, 2008 12:07 pm

    One thing that could be addressed is that of media and advertising, I like the idea of pay per view and tracking what is really popular and not the artificial numbers coming out of Nielsen .

    Watching only what you want to watch and paying for it, then product indices to replace advertising. Those indices could disclose everything, and should. To the extent of the wages paid to employees, stock values, location of manufacturing….the ingredients with hyper links to scientific studies….

    From manufacturing to final consumption, that’s logistics and as populations grow and resources decrease it all about efficiency, then competitions becomes real not contrived.

    The demand is related to population, it will never go away it will always grow, stop conjuring it.

    That is why Rachel is on TV she is driving consumer consumption, through rating and advertising, she say very little, are we missing that?

    I do live on an island, so lonely, oh so lonely.

  11. 11 Loraine Ritchey on November 13th, 2008 12:10 pm

    you are so welcome – hope the interview went well

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