... if only because I don't think it's as important as the people in the glass offices at newspapers think it is, but I link to this for two reasons: First, I think that Instapundit - full disclosure: Glenn Reynolds reviewed for me when I was a book review editor - is the best way of assessing the flow of politics in America; and second, because I think this is going to prove a watershed moment in the forthcoming election: McCain Rejection.
I should add that Glenn is a really cool guy, and I'll bet he's a really good teacher.
It's good to see all the right-wing nut-job bloggers get their undies in a twist over the supposed bias against McCain. For 200 years the media have been owned by and published/operated in support of conservative, not to say reactionary, causes (Chicago's Col. McCormick was only the template for thousands), and now we have a perceived leftward bias in one election and it's the decline of Western journalism. How delicious.
ReplyDeleteMcCain's crowd is whining because the 'media' are the ambulance chasers they are? Hehehehe and wasn't it too long ago tired, old John was their 'darling'?
ReplyDeleteMaybe the NYT sent it back 'cause it was too full of outright delusions to be anything more than laughable, like blaming Obama for high gas prices. Talk about chutzpa bones, how stupid does McCain think Americans are?
No wonder he's so paternalistic about what a woman might do with her body.
-blue
I think you are both missing the pint of this. If you are in the information business, it is essential that your customers trust the quality of the information you purvey. This poll indicates that a good many people do not trust the media on a major matter. Glenn Reynolds, by the way, is not a right-winger. He is not even a conservative. Of course, this is why I try to avoid politics.
ReplyDeleteNot a right-winger? Well, now isn't it likely that you'll pick up fleas cuddling with dogs?
ReplyDeleteQuoting Rasmussen, Moran (doesn't he call himself a right-wing nut job?), and guys pretending to be moderates will get one a rep, you know?
Pol operatives are such babies, whiney little girls .. "Obama's gettin' better treatment than my guy!!!! oh boo-hoo, boo-hoo and whine."
My dad taught me not to believe anything I read in a newspaper unless I saw the event with my own eyes. Who could ever trust journalists .. they're almost as bad as lawyers!
I've seen enough tidbits from Mr. Reynolds to recommend revoking his left-wing membership card. Oh, he never had one? Well, there's no surprise.
How come some guys preface a blatant political push with how they try to avoid politics? Is that something akin to blaming Romano for a messy office?
-blue
Every item posted in this blog is political, save possibly those about flowers and fishies. As for Reynolds, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, and protests that it's not a duck, then it's clearly a right-wing nutjob.
ReplyDeleteWell, my dear Anonymous, if every item posted in this blog - except for a rare few - is political, and reflecting a politics I gather you find abhorrent, I can only wonder why you soil yourself by visiting at all.
ReplyDeleteDear Blue,
ReplyDeletePlease read through your comment. You were taught not to trust what you read in newspapers. I mentioned that my point in posting that item had to do with how it is important for newspapers to be trusted by readers. The poll had to do with trust of readers among newspapers. Remember how you start to diagram a sentence? By asking "What or whom am I talking about?" I haven't even read McCain's article, so I have no idea what he said. Neither my post, nor the poll were about McCain or what he said. Newspapers have been suffering sharp declines in readership. It is just possible that the poll indicates why that may be so. Regarding Glenn Reynolds, I doubt if he has ever had a "left-wing membership card," whatever that may be, but I do seem to recall that he voted for Al Gore. Glenn was the one I said was not a rightwinger. I did not say that Moran was not. And you can think what you want about what I said about the book room, but I worked there for eight years and you didn't. And the reason I don't like to get into politics is that it always sets off a Pavlovian response among the true believers - as if any suggestion of a viewpoint that does not exactly mirror their own is some kind of threat.