ugh
this has to be one of the stupidest opinion pieces i've ever read: this woman claims that the reason we traipsed so happily into the iraq war was that not enough people were reading newspapers. i'm sorry, was she even reading newspaper articles and columns around that time?
Think a little further. If more Americans had had a comprehensive view of the world -- the kind that is irrevocably blurred by the 80,000 new blogging sites launched every week -- it would have been barely possible for the 30 people who in essence started the Iraq war to have acted without the accord of the American people.
yes. the iraq war is the fault of bloggers and their dastardly plan to have readers read them. shite newspaper reporting had nothing to do with it.
that's the first ridiculous point. the second ridiculous point is basically that the reason for circulation declines is the readers' fault (with a healthy dose of blogs, of course). god forbid anyone ever think that maybe people don't read newspapers as much anymore because maybe newspapers aren't delivering what they need. the condescending view that only newspapers can properly educate people and the reason they're failing nowadays is the fault of the idiotic american public is one of the things that is sure to rile me up into a frenzy.
"My theory is that we Americans have so picked and chosen our news that we have lost that comprehensive view of the world that only a newspaper gives."
huh. if only we could do something about this...something like not allowing people to pick and choose what they want to read...perhaps a government-licensed newspaper that everybody is forced to read? that sounds like just the ticket!
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the opinions of cat ladies are the only things that make my sorry life livable...
"[Georgie Anne] Geyer, a longtime foreign correspondent whose column appears in about 100 newspapers, is the author of 'When Cats Reigned Like Kings.'
She'll be meeting with Egyptian publishers to discuss translating the book into Arabic. Geyer is also thinking about expanding the Egyptian section of "When Cats Reigned Like Kings" into a separate book, and creating a children's book about the Egyptian cat."
Good thinking. Giving consumers options is communist/socialist. Let capitalism and democracy work, bloggers!
I saw a few minutes of a documentary on IFC about Al Jazeera and its reporting of the lead up to the war in Iraq. It's interesting to see how Al Jazeera had a different perspective (and a realistic one too) on what was happening in Iraq. One scene that caught my attention was an interpreter translating Bush's speeches to arabic and shaking his head because he couldn't believe the bullshit he had to translate. However much the US government may have demonized AJ, they have some of the most accurate reporting of the war and are often cited by other news agencies because they aren't censored by the military. And from what I know, a lot of people get their news from TV especially in areas of the world like the Middle East and Africa where literacy rates are rather low (and where blogs would be impossible given the low computer availability). A newspaper would best be served as a sanitary wipe in most underdeveloped nations.
With that said... I pledge allegiance to the flag... let freedom ring... blah blah blah... patriot powers activate. Had to do that just in case some neo-cons decide to label me some kind of liberal moonbat.
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