Peggy Noonan’s Take on Bloggers
Posted By: 'Okie' | 10:08 am — 2/17/2005 | 
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[Heads up: Mark Tapscott]
Mark clues us in to today’s Wall Street Journal Opinion, where columnist Peggy Noonan gives us her take on the current state of the MSM in relation to bloggers in: “The Blogs Must Be Crazy — Or maybe the MSM is just suffering from freedom envy.”
… When you hear name-calling like what we’ve been hearing from the elite media this week, you know someone must be doing something right. The hysterical edge makes you wonder if writers for newspapers and magazines and professors in J-schools don’t have a serious case of freedom envy.
The bloggers have that freedom. They have the still pent-up energy of a liberated citizenry, too. The MSM doesn’t. It has lost its old monopoly on information. It is angry. … “
She goes on to give seven illustrations that explain the power of bloggers, and wraps it all up with some fascinating predictions. Go and read it!
Captain Ed at Captain’s Quarters is wondering if the Noonan piece is an olive branch to the bloggers from the Journal to smooth over their fairly hostile remarks earlier in the week:
Hopefully, Noonan’s piece intends on smoothing over relations with the bloggers who not only read WSJ/OJ’s offerings on a regular basis but normally (speaking for myself) enthusiastically recommend them to their readers. I’d like to feel good about my daily visits to OJ again.
[Heads up: Michelle Malkin]
Michelle posts links to further discussions of Noonan’s column, as well as to Hugh Hewitt’s article for the Daily Standard where he gives the credentials of the bloggers that make up Easongate and Powerline, both of which, by being bloggers, were slighted in unnamed editorials in the WSJ this week. A sample:
But the Journal also uncharacteristically slashed at the new media as “amateurs” from the “Internet and talk-show crew,” and contrasted “the good judgment and sense of proportion that distinguishes professional journalism from the enthusiasms and vendettas of amateurs.” The writer also asserted that those within the Journal’s walls “make grown-up decisions” which, he believes, bloggers don’t. …
Credentials, of course, have little to do with facts–either they are facts or they aren’t. And one man’s opinion, no matter who signs his paycheck, should be judged by the same standards of logic and persuasiveness as all others, regardless of the letterhead on which it arrives.
Like always, also well worth the read — Enjoy! (db)
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