Nightline tonite: bloggers (Gannon, Easton, Rather, etc) n/t

[Tactical Progressive]

[Jesus Saves]

1. thanks for the head's up

sounds interesting

[Tactical Progressive]

2. John Donvan and ABC giving alot of credit and credibility

to blogging. He seems very excited by the whole blogging concept. He said something like 'they have scooped the mainstream media on a number of big stories recently' and how it's growing rapidly, not going away.

[EC]

3. I'll watch, but

Nightline, is real big on dis-information. Like they did on the election fraud, saying it was foil-hatters, pushing it...:tinfoilhat:

[Tactical Progressive]

4. I've been thinking less of Nightline too.

Especially Chris Bury and John Donvan. Seems they've been whirling down the same drain as the rest of the corporate media whores. They just started higher up the waterline. But they have that same corporate media sense of casually accepting in full the Republican spin on every issue.

I'd rather they deal with the corrupt bankruptcy bill than the blogosphere.

[Tactical Progressive]

5. Well, the show was overall very positive towards blogs

pointing out their recent major successes and even how they basically smacked the mainstream media around. There was one segment where some blogger researched a bill whose language effectively made it a crime to have a miscarriage and not report it to the police within twelve hours. Because of the blogosphere, the Congressman started receiving all kinds of e-mails on it, and even though he pointed out how that type of interpretation would be adjusted in committee, he pulled the bill anyway. Another blog success.

The wrapup on the show was: Journalism is a profession of unglamorous, painstaking research. 'That's how you build credibility. Blogging will have to build that credibility one blog at a time'.

Which I suppose was fair, given the overall positive presentation that they gave blogs and the fact that blogging is indeed a relatively nascent form of publishing, but it did serve to remind me how much the editorializing in the final summation goes towards informing viewer opinion, as you're trying to make sense of all the mulch you've just seen. That was the final impression: the mainstream media are the ones with credibility.