Suggestions?
Published by Mike Stark March 25th, 2006 in UncategorizedSo Jim Brady at the Washington Post is intent on hiring another conservative blogger. He’s completely ignored the honest criticism he’s received from his readers, opting instead to tell us all to go fuck ourselves…
So you’ll start seeing calls for his head throughout the blogosphere.
call me defeatist, call me crazy… naysayer… whatever…
but this isn’t Dan Rather… and if it was, the conservative establishment media would have gone to the mat defending Rather against the screaching liberals on the blogs - we could never have taken his head…
anyway, back to the point…
There are more than enough influential reporters that would represent real victories for us… How’s that Chris Matthews blog going?
I think we need to really reflect on our strategies and priorities. It’s good to push back against this stuff, but Ben was an insignificant turd that nobody’s - even now - ever heard of - except us bloggers…
Every now and then we’ll get a table scrap like that, but exactly how are you going to go after Brady? Without the help of the conservative establishment media, his job is safe… Something I think was key to the Rather follies was that other high profile media figures were willing to pile on… We, on the other hand, don’t really have any high profile media figures willing to elevate this… first of all, Brady is still insignificant - not worth talking about outside the blogosphere… and second of all, even liberal columnists (what - all three of them?) like Krugman, Ivins and uhmm… help me out here… uhm….
anyway, you get the point.
Where they had every conservative columnist in the universe shamelessly calling for Rather’s scalp (between reading CNS News and Drudge), our guys don’t play along.
That’s a key problem for us… and I wish I had an idea of how to address it.
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“second of all, even liberal columnists (what - all three of them?) like Krugman, Ivins and uhmm… help me out here… “
others include Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Tom Oliphant, David Corn, Dan Froomkin.
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This isn’t about “balancing” the alleged closet liberalism on the part of Froomkin, or any other Washington Post figure. Conservatives don’t give a damn how many of their fellow conservatives are on your site — so long as your paper continues to report facts they don’t like, or media critics like Froomkin factcheck the more mindnumbing elements of political spin, those conservatives are still going to attack the paper itself as being hopelessly “liberal.”
(more) by Kos: on Brady at WaPo
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“As the Bush administration’s Iraq fiasco spirals further out of control, a new phase of the war has begun: an all-out assault on the American media for simply reporting the news. The scope and audacity of this attack is breathtaking: on cue, a bevy of administration officials and rightwing talking heads has begun taking direct aim at the press…
Democrats can learn a lesson from this new rightwing anti-media salvo. Despite a half-decade of “Bush stands firm” and “Democrats muddled” narratives that have mangled public perceptions beyond repair, Dems tiptoe around media issues, afraid to alienate the media establishment. Meanwhile, Bush and his minions launch a full-scale offensive, no hesitation, no shame. This is a new and repugnant twist in the Iraq misadventure, a coordinated assault against the free press by a desperate administration, and it is a dangerous and shameful tactic. And for an administration that created this mess, it is the mother of all political cop-outs.
Daou: War of the Media
I left a comment on a Dkos thread where I said if they truly want a conservative blogger, who could be more conservative, christian, and heterosexual than Gen. JC Christian? We should start a grassroots movement to get the General hired by the WaPo.
How could I forget Jane Hamsher? She writes:
I’m guessing this all started when the White House didn’t like the magnifying glass being applied to it by Dan Froomkin at the WPNI, and since they have no ability to differentiate between valid criticism and partisan hackery their two-pronged approach was to a) silence Froomkin and b) try to get their own partisan hack in there.
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Jim Brady is a godsend.
Let him hire another Red blogger. We’ll do the background vetting and destroy the next new hire, too. Lather, rinse, and repeat. Seems like as good a way as any to refute the neo-con talking points.
http://blogoland.blogspot.com/2006/03/hugh-hewitt-terror-warrior.html