I don't have a Blackberry, but it's not because I think it will destroy the world...I haven't checked in on Cohen's wanking lately, but it seems to me that Richard hates Obama's Blackberry.
Let's call it the Blackberry Bubble....
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Who is this Cohen guy?
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And why are they worried about bubbles?
LaToure. I remember her but they shouldn't worry. She hasn't stripped for years!
At first, I thought he was a PNACer...the name sounded familiar (I got Richard Perle and Elliot Cohen mashed up) but if you look at his Wiki entry...he is just a simple scumbag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cohen
Really? He's been at the WaPo- and syndicated nationally- for years, if not decades.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Since FISA BushCo can "intercept" all transmissions that come from a "foreign" country, and since all of Rims messages go through a router in Canada can't Bush "technically" get access to all blackberry messages.
Whenever I watched the Democratic Politicos running around looking at their Blackberries I just envisioned Rove sitting there reading all the secret democratic operations!
if they were able to read them...they still got their asses handed to them
From the article it sounds more like Mr. Cohen is trying to drum up subscriptions for a medium that is going the way of the broadsheet...as we have all heard about newspaper companies going bankrupt across the nation.
Blackberry's also connect to the intertubes and Pres-elect Obama can read the online version via the new technology. Paper is so last century.
I can't wipe my ass with microchips.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And what would we wrap our weed in?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
go glass, it's what all teh cool kids are doin.
The brass bat, or those clear papers...
You could use microchips...but...uh..might be a bit...scratchy...
Altoids boxes.
me-oww!
In the Air Force, we'd use Coke cans, slightly dented in the middle with the stuff, and a small hole, and covered the drink opening to shotgun it.
Then we crumpled the can and put it in the garbage, voile, not paraphernalia.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
we used a bic pen barrel to make a tunnel in someone's pear. I had a bit of foil we poked tiny holes in. We were on Lake Sammamish, behind a clump of Miscanthus sinensis and buried the used part of the pear on the sand bar we were sitting on, at the rest. Also voilà, not paraphernalia. just some smoke damaged food.
me-oww!
Tastes good, too! :)
but I've used apples aplenty!
especially the granny smiths...I HIGHLY recommend it.
What you wrote was exactly what I was thinking. Read the newspapers? Seriously?
It's teh internet, baby. Where you can find real information should you choose to delve into it. You can find just as much bullshit in the NYT or WSJ as you can on the internet. And if you do a good enough job, you get valuable info without the ink. I hate print ink on my fingers.
Old school, indeed.
Newspapers are dying. In the last day or two, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, which conduct printing operations jointly, announced that they will only deliver subscriptions on Thursday, Friday and Sunday (Free Press only).
The Newhouse newspapers in Michigan, which publish in Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and a few other cities, is consolidating all copy editing in Grand Rapids, and all advertising operations in K-Zoo.
Here's what's got Cohen worried- he's syndicated in some of those Newhouse fish-wraps, but not necessarily in all of them. And when the day comes that the editor of the GR Press decides that the people of Ann Arbor are going to read the same columns as those in the other papers, there's a good chance Mr. Cohen will see his income from his syndicated columns dry up quickly. So this particular column strikes me as a kind of pathetic exercise in journalistic panhandling.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
but I think his advice is excellent.
Presidents should read newspapers or even blogs if they want to get a balanced view of their policies and the citizens' reactions to them. I think he's right that in most cases, presidents don't get a very complete picture of America outside Washington, or maybe even the White House, by relying solely on their staffs.
The article starts out rather well, making a good point (and Mr. Obama agreed on this too) that a president can easily end up in a bubble surrounded by people who only tell him what he wants to hear. Then Cohen goes off on a rant on how newspapers keep presidents out of bubbles, and that it's their job. Cohen was obviously asleep the last 8 years with Bush as it became the MSM's job to keep King Bush in his bubble. The MSM did it with a relish. I guess now that Bush is leaving the MSM will again attack a Democratic President on a daily basis, but with trivial, useless matters like the current "scandal" with Blago. In other words, they will resume what they were doing from 1992-2000.
And the rant against the Blackberry was pointless and stupid.
Obama was quoted as saying he doesn't know what he's going to do without his Blackberry to stay in touch with everybody, so it hasn't exactly appeared out of the blue. I don't think that's where he got his "news" though, just the way he kept contact with people.
I imagine during the campaign it was a lifeline to everyone on his staff.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
..the whole article was pointless and stupid...! The initial premise that Barack will end up in a "bubble" like GWB is the most ridiculous comparison ever! GWB is one of the dumbest, most incurious, most inarticulate creeps who ever walked this Earth. He's a PUPPET - just needs to keep on breathing to keep his job - they write the words for him - he Can't even Read them Correctly!!
If nothing else, I'm fairly certain Barack will be curious, ask questions and remain abreast of the day-to-day doings in the world -
with or without the blackberry.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Hardly.
Just more evidence that it is time for the print media to die.
I'm a geezer who doesn't exactly love all of the new tech either.
But the Blackberry is only a tool.
Kinda like you.
I am amazed by how many "experts" are chirping about what Obama should do. I'm waiting for someone to chirp up about what foods Obama should eat and when.
It's hard for me to give much credit to a guy named Cohen who I have never heard of until today and who is whining because our next president is intelligent enough to use a blackberry and read a newspaper too.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
They already have chimed in on Mr. Obama's diet.
Tweety went on a tirade when Mr. Obama ordered orange juice in a diner in Iowa during the campaign, accusing him of being "elitist" because he didn't order coffee.
I don't worry about Obama getting caught up in a bubble. Michelle will keep him in line and his feet on the ground of reality.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Got that right!
She ain't gonna let any yes men get close to Obama!
as saying that McCain's flip-flopping denoted "character."
Follow the tag beneath the article.
His banana must be jealous.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
What makes him leap to the conclusion that Obama doesn't read the newspaper? This is likely false. I have a blackberry and it doesn't magically prevent me from reading print.
This writer lives in the "beltway bubble", where old-boy "journalists" don't know that their own very newspaper articles can be accessed on... a BLACKBERRY.
I can't even work a cell phone! :P
me-oww!
I could, but I'd need an electron microscope.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
for glasses, I mean.
me-oww!
but only the actual telephone part.
They can keep the other 144 functions.
Until they develop one that dispenses single malt.
My Palm has become everything I need. A calendar with a timer so I don't miss important stuff, one place for all my contacts, a phone, a camera, texting and the internet. If I didn't have my Palm, I wouldn't know when to take a shit.
I read the internet for hours at airports every week. I read blogs, news sites, and other things which interest me. It keeps me up on the things that matter to me.
of neither a cellie nor a BB
I have a cell phone that sits in my purse in case of emergency and I couldn't tell you the number of it because I never use it. I have the number written down in my wallet. I check the charge once in a while. I give my number to no one because I just totally hate being bothered by any phone.
If I were queen of the universe, cell phones would not be allowed on in public places...especially those little around the ear things that make people appear to be talking to the groceries on the shelf at the market.
I have no BB or Ipod. I'm comfy here in my cave with my abacus.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
damn, i've been using my fingers! i need to get me one of those abaci!
Dude, you have to get with the program. Move on up and all that jazz.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
as distrust. The only thing wrong with Cohen's analysis is that he speaks of "a" newspaper instead of the many that need to be considered.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
He speaks of a newspaper which must be held to be appreciated. How many people read the NYT, WSJ, LAT, and others online? I do.
He is shilling for an outdated model. Newspapers need to look to a different model (like, oh, I don't know, perhaps ANALYSIS of news, real news, the things which may not be headline material, because the Internet allows that within minutes, not overnight, but might save their collective asses.
That said, I am sure their analysis would be as flawed and opinionated as their reporting.
I imagine you become addicted to a blackberry the way most of us are addicted to our computers. For that very reason, I don't need one.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
What articles or sections of the newspapres should Obama read? The NY Times OPED by Bill Kristol or perhaps just your opinion in the WAPO. If we were getting news from the MSM, we wouldn't need blackberries and the internet.
After seeing Cohen's portrait I can understand his thinking, he looks like he still works with an inkwell and feather pen!
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
n/t
Our paper, The Palm Beach Post, is a great paper but it's getting smaller and smaller every day. It used to be a big chunk of newspaper when we would take it out of our paper box, but today it's about the size of a small town paper. They are even putting ads on the front page. It's really sad to see it slowly die.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
i am always game for some msm smackdown, some mainstream journo teeth-kickin', for some mocking of the self-declared wisemen. and dick cohen is a prime candidate for a good mockin'
those that have never heard of cohen, lemme provide you with a brief cohen snippet. from feb 6, 2003:
This is where Colin Powell brought us all yesterday. The evidence he presented to the United Nations -- some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail -- had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise.
so, before this stuffed suit with the hairdo comes'a hootin and a'hollerin' about "groupthink" and "the bubble" he might want to accept the fact that he is part of the "group" that helped "think" us into iraq. and the "bubble", well, he's in it.
washpost oped section really--with a few exceptions [ie, froomkin]--sucks.
for one of these Blackberries. What is a good one? Will I need to get a cellphone number? Can the pictures be printed?
the new touch Blackberry absolutely rocks. My coworker has one and we were playing with it at our company holiday event. I liked it quite a lot.
I hope they sell a ton...RIMM's stock is circling the commode as I type.
Still flashing midnight.
'Keeping Yourself Regular Is The Key To Health.', 12-10-2008.
'Those Damn Kids Are Back On My Lawn Again.', 12-3-2008.
'Things Were Better in The Old Days.' 11-26-2008.
'The Senior Buffet Up At the Indian Casino On Sundays is A Real Bargain - And Good Food, Too!' 11-19-2008.
'What Ever Happened To The Real Hollywood Stars?', 11-12-2008.
'Why Won't Those Damn Kids Stay Off My Lawn?', 11-5-2008.
'You'll Never Catch Me Paying Four Dollars For A Hamburger.' 10-29-2008.
'Anyone Else Out There Enjoy Listening To Old Time Radio Shows?' 10-22-2008.
'Barack Obama Is A Fine Young Fellow, But I'm Still an Adlai E. Stevenson Man.' 10-15-2008.
'Say What You Want About Ma Bell, But In The Old Days There Was Never Anyone Calling Mother And I About Changing our Long Distance Carrier During SupperTime.' 10-7-2008.
'If A Taxpayer Can't Call The 9-1-1 To Complain About How The Hometown Buffet Has Up And Raised It's Senior Prices, Then We Might As Well Be Living In Cuba." 9-30-2008.
ROFLMAO!
That list just got better as it went on!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Cohen writes:
I say say that its call Crooks and Liars!!
Don't be hatin' technology.
WTF!!! I was about to start typing when an annoying-as-hell ad comes floating from stage left onto my screen. Don't tell me I have to start using Mozzila again just for Ad-Block (I'm Chrome now, like the devil).
Oh. Back to the topic. You know what they call me?
Quite rightly.
I'm a hopin' the first thing the economic crisis hurts is the sale of all them thar electronic gew-gaws.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Is that anything like a doo-flotchy? Or thingamajig...
good advice, now tell where we can find a newspaper that meets these criteria. good luck with that search you will need it
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