“Real Journalist”, Paul Mulshine, Alerts His Fellow Americans To The Disturbing Fact That Lowly Bloggers Are Taking Down The Print Newspapers And Jobs Away From Fellow “Real Journalists”
Folks, this is good stuff from a “Real Journalist”; a “credentialed”, “highly-trained” newswriter; a “Paul Revere” of his “esteemed” trade who is warning America: “The bloggers are coming — the Bloggers are coming!” in his WSJ Op-Ed piece (CLEVERLY) entitled:
All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Newspaper
Bloggers are no replacement for real journalists.
WOW. The man has a point. I’ll be paraphrasing Mr. Mulshine from here on out, but one great point he brings up is the fact that bloggers aren’t as well-trained and clever as a “real journalist” is. He points out the fact that anybody can cut and paste something and say “that sucks and here’s why”; and I suppose I just proved his point to be correct since I cut and pasted the title and sub-headline to his brilliant, anti-blogger piece myself, not to mention the fact I could NEVER have been clever enough to come up with such a catchy headline and sub-headline. He also points out that we bloggers can’t punctuate or spell as well as a “real journalist” can either. The “Esteemed Mr. Mulshine” also forgets to mention the fact he and his brothers and sisters of the MSM need an EDITOR to double-check and correct, then eventually approve their drivel brilliant stories but those are just useless semantics, my friends.
MSM Reporter Bashes The Bloggers Part XXXXX
Last but not least, as Mr. Mulshine points out, online ads are cheaper than print ads and that just means we bloggers don’t make enough money to hire editors and jump onto aircraft to fly into Washington, D.C. with cameras and microphones in our hands and accurately understand and break down what we just saw and hears like the “REAL journalists” can. And, thanks to we bloggers, the MSM journalists can do this either, well, because they’re laid off and on a tight budget, which means we all lose, thanks to we damned bloggers and our damned readers who prefer our cheerfully slanted, opinionated and biased coverage of current events. Mr. Mulshine and his brethren not only WANT but DESERVE the half-a-million readers per month who come to this site rather than buy his newspaper and keep food on their tables. And hey, the guy’s got a point. After all, I’m just a “pajama-wearing dumbass”. What do I know?
Last but not least, for a more serious roundup of my personal opinions on bloggers -slash- blogging, Freedom Of The Press, the 1st Amendment and our Founding Fathers as well as the MSM versus the Blogospheres, click on any of those last few links.
***
Other “must read” opinions from fellow “pajama wearing fools”…
“… I like blogging. I like bloggers. But let’s not kid ourselves: We need newspapers because someone has to keep the politicians honest. …”
“… It seems that often when big-media types write about the failings of blogs, they engage in the kind of lazy inaccuracy they condemn. …”
“… someone needs to tell Mulshine about the important role that the blogosphere he is dismissing has played in keeping professionals honest. …”
Loading ...
12:07 am on December 29th, 2008 1
Some guy at the Wall Street Journal says that bloggers don’t know much about important stuff (e.g., government, geography, economics, energy, and punctuation) that they would know if they possessed a Bona Fide BA in Journalism, such as that earned through rigorous study at five institutions of higher learning by the former candidate for vice president of the United States, Sarah Palin? And that makes it A Fact that a blogger such as the likes of me (Gib at truthalyzer.com), whose college studies were limited to such inferior subjects as political science, history, and literature, finds himself ill-equipped to hold forth against the Fourth Estate’s foremost (or even its fifth or sixthmost, like Sarah)? But if I had pursued my doctorate in Advanced Journalistical Arts & Massive Communication Sciences I would not only be taken seriously by guys like the guy at the Wall Street Journal but I could TEACH guys like that guy (not to mention Sarah) how to be journalists? Is that what you’re telling me GTL?
Well, I blog not to be a pretend journalist but to counter the stupidity of journalists and to inform my readers. As Oscar Wilde said: “Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
3:39 am on December 29th, 2008 2
“… if I had pursued my doctorate in Advanced Journalistical Arts & Massive Communication Sciences I would not only be taken seriously by guys like the guy at the Wall Street Journal but I could TEACH guys like that guy (not to mention Sarah) how to be journalists? Is that what you’re telling me GTL? …”
I think you need to read a few more of my columns, my friend
10:37 am on December 29th, 2008 3
This issue reminds me of a quotation I heard once: “Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”
It is amazing that so many people are still Obsessed with Sarah Palin.
1:05 pm on December 29th, 2008 4
Oh my, you took me as utterly serious? So I was supposed to take all that Panama Juan stuff seriously? Look, there was a guy on old time radio who ranted on every week about something and ended up shooting the messenger with “Is that what you’re telling me, bub” or something like that. I guess I didn’t carry it off as well as he did.
And I’m obsessed with Palin just because I draw attention to her so-called journalistic credentials in the context of the WSJ’s praise of journalists?
Am I too old for this website?
6:33 pm on December 29th, 2008 5
Heh… we BOTH might be too old
Welcome back 