Letters to the Editor
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Wow
"the narrow, slothful, and self-defensive mentality of a low-level bureaucrat" -- that's one of the most calmly accurate and devastating things I've read in a while. Wow.
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Wait: Richard Wolffe or Michael Wolffe?
You started off talking about Richard Wolffe from Newsweek, then credited a bunch of stories from Michael Wolffe? I'm confused.
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also...
Apparently, ex-"journalist" and blogger 'Jeff Gannon' was in the audience, too, along with all the other media whores...
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edits
Apparently, one of the most pressing media problems in America is . . . that bloggers demand to much of the national journalists who assigned to report on the activities and claims of the Government.
too
not Wolffe and his gullible journalistic colleagues who are doing a "fanstatic job," nor the administraiton officials who fed them these falsehoods.
fanstatic, ha.
Tried to wait a little while for you to go back through and check yourself. Not quite sure how long is long enough.
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All the while
Jeff Gannon looked on in rapt attention. Check the video.
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Michael vs. Richard
I am equally confused about the whole Richard Wolffe / Michael Wolffe thing. I assume that Glenn is referring to the same man. I further assume that "Michael" (which is probably his given name), sometimes goes by "Richard" (which is probably his preferred name). For example, my dad's first name is Charles, but he goes by his middle name, Thomas or Tom.
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abso fucking lutely
The reality, of course, is that most media-criticizing bloggers do not want journalists to be "political advocates." They want them to do what journalists are supposed to do ...
And the reason bloggers want them to do that, the reason that bloggers demand more of journalists like Wolffe, is not because bloggers are enraged, confused, unreasonable partisans. It's because bloggers are American citizens who are deeply concerned about what has happened to their country over the last six years and criticize the press and demand more of it because Wolffe's overly-friendly relationships with Bush officials like Tony Snow, and Wolffe's simplistic and lazy conception of what a reporter does, produces extremely destructive and shoddy "journalism"
This is the reason that I love your posts, Glenn. Thank you for putting that into words.
There is a great outraged Matt Taibbi column up at alternet -
http://www.alternet.org/story/48278/
- about how the media's obsession with completely ridiculous crap - Britney's hair, Anna Nicole for starters - is distracting us from some truly important and devastating information. His column is about the lack of scrutiny being paid to Bush's budget proposal, but it is apt as well for the editorial in the NYT yesterday about the line-item repeal of posse commitatus tucked away in last year's military appropraitions bill.
We are on a slippery slope, and need to get some traction.
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They still don't get it
It is shocking ... they really don’t get it, do they? The blogs wouldn’t have come into prominence if the press DID their job the past 6 years. The only reason the truth is getting out now is b/c blogs have held the press accountable and forced issues. The fact the press is actually smoking and joking with the WH press sec. tells me all I need to know about how they view their responsibilities.
I don't know one blogger who if asked would say that yes - I enjoyed being angry and spending the past x years inside blogging in the absence of a press doing its job, rather than being out enjoying my life with my family. While I am angry that the media fell down during the early years, there is absolutely no excuse to hear this kind of talk now.
I am shocked (ok, not really) by their insecure, thin-skinned, and ignorant attitudes about who they are - in fact, they remind me of a certain President always asserting he's in charge and we don't know anything. All in the the same bed, these folks.
I have always made the assertion that the quality of the media is low because the quality of folks in the MSM has declined, whether due to the emphasis of appearance over talent and other factors. They are nothing but mid-level drones now. And that most of the real journalists are now online where the medium better suits them and the message. Thoughts?
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Too many Wolffes?
http://www.nndb.com/people/243/000122874/
Richard Wolffe from Birmingham, UK is WH correspondent for Newsweek.
Michael Wolff (no e) writes on financial matters for New York. I think this a typographical error rather than an error of attribution. Glenn seems to have written down Michael when he meant Richard. If you do a search for "michael wolfee newsweek" you get a bunch of Michael Hirsch/Richard Wolffe stories.
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Blogs...
are great. They exposed Dan Rather's ineptitude and the liberal journalists obsession with getting Bush at the expense of facts or authentic documents.
Who watches the Watchmen?
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Grreeehuh ? now, ...what to do about G.G?
Without speaking an intelligible word word, Tony Snow went "Grreeehuh 'geeky' Damn lawyer Greenwald?
Tony Snow thinks he is Pompey the Great or pompous the Great? Neither. It's his Snow Job. I herd on Meet The Press (depressed) he loves his snow-role.
*But Jove from heaven struck Ajax Mr Snow with shivers and fear;
Ajax Mr. Snow, along side the so called 'bold,' stood astonished to see his pale face.
Ajax's white robe Tony Snow.
Flung o'er his back, the mighty Snow's shield,
And all the trembling neocons gazed at Glenn, and Greenwald got spied upon in the green zone field sycophant's,
Please, find some neocons peons,
Please help!*
If they don't stop the nonsense the entire nations/world will all fall dawned-down and it be wise to best learn to sing that 'ole plague song, "Ring around the Rosy." Who needs the protection is not 'us' when all the worms crawl outta' the can. They will all fall down. When Justice rolls in the streets like a pent-up-river dam breaks! Watch out. Swim? We won't all drown. Neocons will never be able to butterfly swim to shore. Creeps.
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Richard v. Michael
That's all fixed. All the quotes were from Richard Wolffe of Newsweek (and formerly The Financial Times). Somehow, "Michael Wolffe" entered my brain -- who knows why? It's usually best not to explore those things. But all the quotes were correct. "Michael" was just a typo.