Sunday, August 9, 2009

Frustrated journalist starts a blog

Check it out here.
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't see any comments on his site. Does anyone else see any?

Anonymous said...

He has no comments cause like most people in the news, "he doesn’t get it either".

He’s back about five years talking about losing ads to Craigslist, adn gosh, golly, what to do. What to do.

When he mentions bias, shilling for the DNC, or calls out the NY Times types, let me know.

Until then...Yawn

Anonymous said...

I am guessing he does not particularity want to have to put up with the sweaty masses saying things that might challenge his elitist view of things.

Anonymous said...

I think he is a guy with a particular eduction that is afraid of what the future might hold. He has lost confidence in the leadership in his paper and is looking for company.
His politics are probably different from mine but I sympathize with his anxiety and his frustration.

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Anonymous said...

Pelosi finds dissent un-American… now. (Patterico)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer attack anti-ObamaCare protesters at Congressional town halls in the USA Today:

These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.

Pelosi knows a thing or two about raucous protesters, and has not always considered them un-American. Since becoming Speaker, she has occasionally run into resistance from the antiwar movement generally, and Code Pink in particular. In January 2006, Pelosi got a decidedly mixed reseption at a town hall meeting in San Francisco:

Dozens of heckling, sign-toting anti-war protesters tried to take center stage at the congresswomen’s town hall forum on national security — calling for an immediate de-funding of the Iraq war and impeachment proceedings against President George Bush.

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The protesters stood quietly in front of Pelosi waving their signs for the entire two-hour meeting, while hecklers from the audience frequently interrupted the talk.

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But Pelosi never summoned help from police or security. She negotiated with the hecklers and at times even thanked the protesters for their advocacy and enthusiasm.

“It’s always exciting,” she told reporters after the meeting. “This is democracy in action. I’m energized by it, frankly.”

Anonymous said...

Have You Heard Ken Gladney's Story?
RealClear Politics

The first round of protests against the Obama administration's chaotic and rapid-fire expansion of government came in the form of grass-roots "tea parties," which were predictably met with scorn by the Democrat-Media Complex (the natural coalition of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media.)

CNN's Anderson Cooper and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow led the charge, declaring concerned Americans "tea baggers," an allusion to an absurd sexual fetish beneath describing in a family newspaper. This attack on hundreds of thousands of people practicing their constitutional right to protest speaks volumes not just about the hardened sociopolitical leanings of America's journalistic elite, but about the brazenness with which they are now wielding their unprofessionalism.

Last week on the grounds of the once-venerated White House, Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, taking his cues from his allies in the media, referred to last week's health care town-hall protesters as "tea baggers."

How far we have fallen.