Via Shot in the Dark, I came across this little bit of blog bashing spouted forth by one David Paul Kuhn, CBSnews.com's chief political writer. You may remember that CBS not too long ago had a bunch of ankle-biting bloggers come after them for a certain forged memo story. So, they're kinda bitter. The opening paragraph pissed me off immediately:
Internet blogs are providing a new and unregulated medium for politically motivated attacks. With the same First Amendment protections as newspapers, blogs are increasingly gaining influence.
I love that one line about newspapers having First Amendment protections. It's true, of course, freedom of the press and all that. But, it seems to forget that the First Amendment also mentions something about freedom of speech, if I recall correctly, and that freedom is extended to ALL Americans.
It's a funny thing about big media outlets: at some point, they become so inflated by their own perceived self-importance, they begin to believe that the First Amendment somehow belongs to them and only them. They start to believe that the freedom of the press aspect of the First Amendment is somehow more important than freedom of speech. What institutions like CBS fail to grasp is that blogs are more an expression of free speech than they are of freedom of the press, and their failure to understand that will continue to cause them no end of frustration.
But it sure is fun to watch.
Good old Lily needed a lift in her Christmas spirit.
I, naturally, thought of this.
I'm so going to hell. But I'll be laughing.
Ryan says: Newsflash. Apparently, Lindsay Lohan, that breasty redhead teen heart-throb, can't sing for shit: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140970,00.html
Caroline says: duh
Ryan says: She's still hot though. I'd do her.
Ryan says: Which is kind of like saying "I'll breathe air today."
Caroline says: Oh, c'mon. You wouldn't do just anyone.
Ryan says: Well, no, but it's common sense that I'd pork Lohan, if the opportunity presented itself.
Caroline says: ok
Ryan says: Kind of like you and Steve Buscemi.
Caroline says: she's not that pretty without makeup
Ryan says: So?
Ryan says: It's not like I'd stick around long enough to see her without makeup.
Ryan says: Salma Hayek is still tops, of course.
Ryan says: Or bottom, if she prefers that.
Ryan says: But Lohan is still hot. Especially when she shows off her bodyLohan . Or her Lohan breast, for that matter. Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan. Girl.
Bush to MLB: take 'strong steps' on steroids
Well, that might require more steroids, but okay.
So, this Star-Tribune opinion piece opens with the following sentence:
Now that Colin Powell has been emancipated from the Bush administration, he has an opportunity to bring leadership to the single most important domestic issue facing our nation.
Emancipated? EMANCIPATED?! Does that newspaper even HAVE editors?
UPDATE: Keep in mind, also, that the rest of the Op-Ed piece has precious little to do with Powell leaving the Bush administration, which begs the question: why open the piece with such a racially-inflaming literary device? It makes no sense. But, that's just me, I guess.
I miss the Plain Layne comment threads.
I mean, every day, I miss them.
*sigh*
