skippy the bush kangaroo

Monday, November 28, 2005

quote of the day

atrios, on us news and world report editor-in-chief mort zuckerman's lament that blogs can get things wrong:

however, it isn't blogs that destroyed the gatekeepers. it wasn't blogs that put rush limbaugh on as an election analyst. it wasn't blogs that gave bill o'reilly the flagship show on a major cable news network. it wasn't blogs that gave michael savage his own television show on a cable news network. it wasn't blogs that put ann coulter on the cover of a major national news magazine. it wasn't blogs that created all of the various and often fact free screaming heads shows. it wasn't blogs that gave syndicated columns to numerous conservatives with little or no experience in journalism. it wasn't blogs that devoted the summer of 2001 to gary condit (uh, ok, well, maybe josh helped a bit)and the summer of 2005 to a missing girl in aruba. it wasn't blogs that invented the new york post or washington times. and, it wasn't blogs that were responsible for all of the errors that this wonderful organization tracks on a regular basis.

gatekeeper media may be dead, but to a great degree they dug their own grave and dove right in. blogs didn't really get there until after the funeral.

p o'neill also points out what a great job the gatekeepers did on keeping the falsehood that al gore invented the internet out of the public consciousness.

posted by skippy at 12:18 PM |