Saturday, October 02, 2004
Tom Brokaw Calls Bloggers Terrorists
Kevin McCullough at Crosswalk Reports:
BROKAW DEFENDS RATHER, COMPARES BLOGS TO TERRORISTS: Given all that has transpired between CBS and blogs in the last few weeks - you would think that the other anchormen at major broadcast networks would have learned something about blogs and the internet. They demonstrated today - right here in New York City that they remain clueless to the media revolution that is occurring.
Their arrogance proves they just don't get it...
It is unlikely that Brokaw or Jennings have cried a tear about the treatment of Dan Rather. He has tanked in the ratings since the scandal. But that didn't keep them from saying ludicrous things about bloggers while sitting beside him today...
First Brokaw...
"The criticism...goes well beyond any factual information."
"What I think is highly inappropriate is what is going on across the internet, a kind of political jihad...and that is quite outrageous," said Brokaw.
And not content to let Brokaw and Rather be the only two disgraced anchormen in the room Canada's boy wonder spoke up as well...
"I don't think you ever judge a man by only one event in his career," said Jennings.
If it weren't for the pajama-wearing-jihadists the public still wouldn't know that Dan Rather purposefully used documents he knew to be false. (Two of his own authenticators told him so.) If it weren't for these sub-human creatures called bloggers - no one would have raised the questions about the curious timing of the "Fortunate Son" story and its correlation to CBS' airing of the original falsified piece. If it weren't for bloggers who would have found out that CBS' "expert witnesses" on the Bush documents were a "handwriting soothsayer", and a type-writer repairman? And it was THIS blogger that discovered that the source of the documents had a standing account at the Kinkos where they were faxed from.
BROKAW DEFENDS RATHER, COMPARES BLOGS TO TERRORISTS: Given all that has transpired between CBS and blogs in the last few weeks - you would think that the other anchormen at major broadcast networks would have learned something about blogs and the internet. They demonstrated today - right here in New York City that they remain clueless to the media revolution that is occurring.
Their arrogance proves they just don't get it...
It is unlikely that Brokaw or Jennings have cried a tear about the treatment of Dan Rather. He has tanked in the ratings since the scandal. But that didn't keep them from saying ludicrous things about bloggers while sitting beside him today...
First Brokaw...
"The criticism...goes well beyond any factual information."
"What I think is highly inappropriate is what is going on across the internet, a kind of political jihad...and that is quite outrageous," said Brokaw.
And not content to let Brokaw and Rather be the only two disgraced anchormen in the room Canada's boy wonder spoke up as well...
"I don't think you ever judge a man by only one event in his career," said Jennings.
If it weren't for the pajama-wearing-jihadists the public still wouldn't know that Dan Rather purposefully used documents he knew to be false. (Two of his own authenticators told him so.) If it weren't for these sub-human creatures called bloggers - no one would have raised the questions about the curious timing of the "Fortunate Son" story and its correlation to CBS' airing of the original falsified piece. If it weren't for bloggers who would have found out that CBS' "expert witnesses" on the Bush documents were a "handwriting soothsayer", and a type-writer repairman? And it was THIS blogger that discovered that the source of the documents had a standing account at the Kinkos where they were faxed from.
# posted by Knitting a Conundrum @ 5:10 PM 
