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Love ya Molly, but anyone who knows anything about Shih tzu’s knows that they don’t yap (mine has a hard time barking at all, for that matter).

I follow BLOG of all ideological gradients.  But many are simply unreceiptive to people who don’t chant the same line.  For instance, try posting a critical reply to something posted at the WSJ’s Opinion Journal blog.  Taranto allows only ditto answers.

Curiously, partisans turn out to be their own most potent fratricidal forces.  The religious wing of the GOP is now eating apart the party.  The Dems, meanwhile, have long been their own fiercest critics.

I get my broadcast news from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and Jon did cover Colbert! Fake news is better than no news!

The pity of the blogs is the tight alignment of the big box blogs to the Democratic party.  Too many partisan hacks in the soup.

There are wonderful small and medium sized blogs that cover specific issues… and also the smaller political state blogs.

But the party, and the party thugs, moved in early.

Molly, as much as I like reading your column I enjoy Dick Morris as well. Sometimes the gushing of liberals becomes a little much. Than it’s off to Christopher Hitchens and off to Greg Palast. If I hit the right button i can find Eric Schlosser. Blogs usually are so overly opinioned that there is no room for thinking. But the best man of words is Daniel Ruth. But in no way can Broder, Wills, or Novack enter my brain.

They weren’t ignoring Colbert—as I understand it, Colbert was the final speaker, and no paper can get much in after 10 p.m. on Saturday night. Stories have to be written, edited and printed, the presses roll and then the trucks roll. It’s old media, kids—we do not just punch a button at our shops.

That explains why newspapers didn’t cover it on Sunday, but why didn’t they mention it on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday?  Also, many of these papers have online editions, which in fact, can be updated at the push of a button.  Likewise, broadcast journalists failed to cover it. It was not until days later when the internet buzz became too loud to ignore that the MSM finally acknowledged the event.

They weren’t ignoring Colbert—as I understand it, Colbert was the final speaker, and no paper can get much in after 10 p.m. on Saturday night. Stories have to be written, edited and printed, the presses roll and then the trucks roll. It’s old media, kids—we do not just punch a button at our shops.

Molly, you might be correct about the print media, although they certainly could have returned to the subject long before a few of them, in response to bloggers, did. But that doesn’t explain the broadcast media, all of whom broadcast clips from the Bridges bit (contrary to reporting, it was not primarily a “Bush” segment - Bush didn’t write it, and delivered well less than half the lines and virtually none of the funny ones), and none broadcast any of the Colbert segment.

“Today, the bloggers seem to me to be breaking more toward opinion than journalism, which I think is a shame.”

Today? I will never understand journalism’s fascination with “bloggers.” Blogging is nothing more than everyday people writing opinions on the Web. Has been from the start, will always be. Much like people hanging out in a bar and having their conversations posted on the web. Big deal.

Sure there are intelligent, well researched bloggers who might never have been published by “traditional” means, but for every one there’s, what?, a thousand run-of-the-mill “I got my opinion on that too” blogger.

Finish me this:

Blogs are like _________, everyone’s got one.

Molly, all the blogs you recommended are run by men.  Please, don’t slight your sisters!  Bloggers don’t get any better than Jane Hamsher of firedoglake-- and yesterday firedoglike supplied a list of other excellent blogs run by women.  One of the sources of our present plight is the disproportionate number and volubility of male opinion-makers.  If single mothers had voted in 2000 or 2004 the numbers that men and/or married women did, we would not be suffering from this corrupt war-mongering administration!  Women tend to support equity and the safety net, and are less likely to approve of greed and militarism.  But if women do not see and hear women’s opinions being taken seriously, they lose confidence in their own judgment and ability to make a difference.  Sometimes you and Helen Thomas have been our only role models!

Rte 128?

Is there another 128 in TX? or are you a Modern Lovers fan?

Molly,

Like all of your articles, this one is right on.  I think that one reason that newspapers are losing readers is that they are filled with only fluff.  I read a number of MSM newspapers each morning.  But what I’m usually drawn to are the “letters to the editor” in each of the papers.  We might not be getting professional writing, but I think we are getting far closer to the truth.

Unfortunately, the Bush Regime will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their power.  But when one deals with criminals, it doesn’t take long for that to become fully evident.  If the democrats can take at least one house in Congress, we might see a change.  But Bush already rigged his “win” in Ohio in 2004.  It’s too bad that we only talk about parties and not people.

Well said. I’ve been waiting years for somebody with some clout, besides Jon Stewart, to say it. What a bunch of pansies and know-nothings we have in Washington. They almost make me wish for a wall and a firing squad, but I wouldn’t want to waste the money on the bullets. And that’s coming from a former print reporter for 12 years who has been working online the last seven.

My own blog, The Daily Rant, is dedicated to making government as transparent as possible and to stress that the way people govern is far more important than their politics at election time.

Oh well, at least the British reporters in the back of the room still understand they get paid to ask the hard questions and not to toss softballs at a lame duck who thought 52 percent was a mandate.

Interesting metaphor (even though popular perceptions of Shih Tzus are actually flawed):

http://packofwildshihtzus.blogspot.com/2006/05/washing ton-is-swarming-with-shih-tzus.html

good old izzy,gone but not forgotten..dare i mention dr. gonzo? i personally have absolutely no problem w/ values-esp mine! we desperately need sum workin class heroes..again
as always,yu rock my boat molly