Sally Quinn; irrelevant and tearful
Washington Post columnist, Sally Quinn who famously slept her way up the Washington power ladder, laments the fact that she has been ingloriously toppled by people with a vision for the future and who left behind the Old Media and their Old Ideas;
Journalists used to be powerful. But now there are so many 25-year-old bloggers, many of them showing up on the TV talk shows, that the old-timers are struggling to catch up, tweeting their hearts out and using hip language like “hashtags.” And those young bloggers care about money, too. There aren’t enough jobs, and newspapers and Web sites are struggling to make profits. Even the people on top are insecure. Nobody knows when he or she is going to be let go; the guillotine drops on media stars with alarming frequency.
Well, when you have journalists whose bible is the AP Stylebook, and their stock in trade is their arrogance without substance, what did you expect? To illustrate; yesterday’s example of the Washington Post’s media critic, Howard Kurtz telling us that the president doesn’t make gaffes because the media understands what he’s saying.
Maybe if the media talked with us instead of to us, maybe if they let us be a part of the conversation instead of complaining that blogs have no standards of ethics, they wouldn’t be losing their influence in the national discourse. Blogs do have standards, you know. If I make a mistake, you people have no problem telling me about it, and I correct it. If the Washington Post makes a mistake, there’s virtually no way to tell them about it, and, if by some miracle, we get through, they sniff and haw about how we must mistaken.
Yeah, I still have a bug up my ass about how TSO was treated by many in the media last week. We found out who our friends are in the space of a few hours. The Washington Post and the Associated Press ain’t among them. Oddly enough, MSNBC came out the stars.
Category: Media
That she would call herself and others “media stars” tells you all you pretty much need to know.
Journalists used to be powerful.
And that was/is the whole problem right there. When one becomes too powerful for the function they serve, they stop becoming journalists and start becoming activists.
FWIW, Sally–“journalists” are still too powerful. Learn a little humility. Oh, and what was your SAT score again?
Oh, how sweet it is, to hear anyone in the media talk like that!! :))
Get a JOB, ya whiner!!
“Oddly enough, MSNBC came out the stars.”
Remember, even a near sighted hawk catches a rabbit once in a while.
say g’night, Dick…..er, Sally. You are one of the reasons (along with the Left at NPR) I get real news from the BBC.
Welcome to the real world. Sally.
The general public is starting to wake up to their obvious bias, turning the channel, and they have the gall to complain, boo hoo poor us because they can’t actually compete in the free market of ideas. Give me a break! Welcome to the real world!
-Ish
“Nobody knows when he or she is going to be let go; the guillotine drops on media stars with alarming frequency.”
I can think of only one thing better than a “journalist” getting fired, and that one thing is a bit more permanent.
Also, nobody cares about the Post anymore. Except maybe because the express and that’s because they hand it out for free on the Metro. And I still don’t take it.
“Journalists used to be powerful.”
That’s because you controlled information. Like the propagandists in Moscow. Now it’s free. Suck it down. Suck it down hard.
#8 Spade touched on this a bit.
Journalists being powerful was and is never a good thing. Truth being powerful is good but not a person supposedly writing it. I would think an actual journalist practicing actual journalism would want people checking for themselves and asking questions all the while seeking actual answers. I would think an actual journalist would strive to be truthful and unbiased not powerful. At the most seek and earn a reputation for announcing/displaying truth. Correct me if I am wrong but that’s what I would look for in a journalist.
This woman doesn’t understand that more and more people do not believe in these so called journalists and it is their own fault. Internet and unparalled access to free information is only part of their problem….the truth or lack there of is quite another.
#8, #9:
Ayup.
I’m friends with a couple of “journalists” with the Az Republic and the nationally syndicated journalists don’t hold a candle to Laurie Roberts or E.J. Montini. Laurie’s conservative and what she writes I believe without question. Ed “E.J.” has a more liberal bent but, as with Laurie, what he writes I believe without question. They research, they question, they probe, they dig. They will call a spade a spade! EVERYONE has heard of Sheriff Joe, but these two call him out all the time because people believe them more than “America’s Toughest Sheriff”! That says something.
This strikes me as profetic, Reality is Ben Franklin did as much with a printing press as did our militia. There was no style books, and no “establishment” media. Anyone with the will and desire to have the view they hold dear could print a flyer and post it. It is with these tools re-imagined as the modern blog that the real pulse of America is felt. I commented to DBD auther Chris Muir that the real america is on the comments not the stories online. How many do you see with the comments being critical of the bias or even heart of the story? Just a little food for thought.
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