Old Weird Ward
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
- - - - - Oh, Danny Boy! - - - - -
"Oh Danny boy, the blogs, the blogs they are a-calling...
From font to font where no superscripts abide
Your credit's gone, and your ratings they're a-fall-ing
It's you, it's you must go, and CBS must hide
But come ye back when November's tides they're scrying...
For Kerry's lost, his campaign dead it's thanks to ye
You'll come and film, where Bush profits from your lying
And we'll recall in memos posts the credit owed to thee
And you shall hear, tho' soft we post your ears aburning -
Voters turn away, your spin fails in enthralling,
As it once did before you fell afoul of kerning...
You'll know no peace, the blogs engineer your falling."
In other words, Dan Rather, while wearing golf shoes,
whupped it out, dragged it in the dirt, and stepped on it.
OUCH!
I've refrained (Bad Pun Alert) from commenting on RatherGate, but I just couldn't resist.
At this point, it's fairly obvious that Dan Rather and CBS have stepped on it, and in it.
I've seen the press, through carelessness, step in it before. Now, Dan Rather is NOT Jayson Blair. Rather did NOT plagiarize anything. Oh, no, Danny boy hand-crafted this one all by himself, and has now lost his credibility.
I must also say that there's a certain amount of satisfaction, and un-holy glee at seeing the Press go right ahead and, with malice aforethought, step in it. After all, they've chronicled the missteps of others often enough, so it's most satisfying to see Them step in it so publicly.
Mr. Rather, it's time to exit, stage left.
Oh, and the Press on bloggers:
"'Bloggers have no checks and balances.' They are 'sitting in their living room in their pajamas.'" - Former CBS executive Jonathan Klein
Am not either! I'm sitting in my home office, in walking shorts and t-shirt, sucking down a beer, and belching. Mr. Klein, the dark blue t-shirt I'm wearing is from Cocoa Beach, FL, and has a picture of a fishing fly. Would you care to make a guess as to the motto? In bright yellow letters? C'mon, you can at least guess, right?
Oh...all right. I'll tell you. It says....
"BITE ME"
The Fourth Estate is no longer the exclusive province of the anointed.
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