Sargent To WaPo, Erickson Whines
By Steve Hynd Saturday Jan 03, 2009 9:00am
[Erick Erickson of RedState: Image courtesy of Joeff Davis at Creative Loafing.]
Pauvre petite Erick. He doesn't have Sargent's mad skillz and is a little jealous.
Greg Sargent was with the left-wing Talking Points Memo. Now he is with the Washington Post.
I’m sure Greg Sargent is good at what he does, but I’m also sure the Washington Post would not even consider hiring someone directly from the right-of-center blogosphere.
The Wapo already has Krauthammer, Michael Gerson, Fred Hiatt, George Will, Novak, Richard Perle, Dana Milbank and a host of other conservatives writing for it. It doesn't need another.
But it should be noted that the WaPo also tried hiring a conservative blogger first - Ben Domenech of RedState. So much for Erickson's memory and the WaPo's not even considering a wingnut hire.
However, Domenech quit after 3 days because of allegations of plagiarism. Oh Dear. As Matt Y writes: "What the right lacks are people with the skill to do the job." Erickson just proved that with his fact-free rant.
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Colleges crank out journalism majors, how are some successful enough to get into a reputable newspaper or news show, and others never seem to get anywhere?
You mean that that hack, right-wing propaganda ragsheet is still in business? People still read that POS? I wonder when they are going to wake up and acknowledge their complete irrelevence to anything that actually matters?
Along with the New York Post?
Reality usually has a liberal bias, people who can't accept that make up their own reality
make up a bunch of crap!
conservatism is a fantasy based position to start with.
Everything that has ever been good in the world happened because of a liberal point of view.
Bloggers I've read are remarkably *stupid*. Their jobs seems to be rationalizing the viciousness and absurdity of the "right" by projecting their worst attributes upon the "Lefties" It sometimes makes for entertaining reading, but usually: not!
"Bloggers I've read are remarkably *stupid*. Their jobs seems to be rationalizing the viciousness and absurdity of the "right" by projecting their worst attributes upon the "Lefties"......."
I know you are making a point, but I can't assign to whom "attributes" should refer to. The "Lefties" or the "Bloggers"? Could you make it clear, please?
Okay. I now notice you are merely extending the subject title into your comment. Now it makes sense. So, never mind.
RightWingers of all stripes have the utterly annoying trait of adjusting or in most cases actually creating their own reality to combat the truth. If the round truth does not fit in the square hole they envision, they will hammer it, twist it and generally stomp it until it relinquishes it's original intended shape to fit. This is why the little play-board they use is always left in a mangled, splintered and henceforth useless state.
Sounds like my bed in the morning.
Those conservatards STILL think that the MSM is libbrill!
Yeah, that's a whole 'nother "reality."
I wanna live in that reality with the libbrill meejias!
were particularly astute...
Ass toot?
Good times during the primary when Greg would post something positive on Hillary.
Of course, the TPM banned me but he is fair.
WaPO happens to be my "local" paper and I can't tell you the names of ten people who read the damn thing seriously. This one-time standard bearer for investigative journalism has morphed itself into a spokesman for the establishment, regardless of which political party has control of the government. Trust me when I tell you that the competition among its writing staff is no longer about about who gets the important story, but rather who gets the invitation to the best D.C. dinner party.
Great coupon and magazine section on Sundays though. Give WaPo credit for that. Otherwise, it should be thoroughly disregarded.
You all have to start supporting Consortium and Robert Parry.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/010209.html
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Correcto. The print and broadcast media, unfortunately, has indeed sold it's collective soul. To what exactly I am still not certain. Furthermore, I am not certain that over the decades we actually got all the facts and truth we think we did. It's just that with onslaught of actual truth in journalism on the internet (Most of the time) it is so easy to see the manipulation that television and newspapers practice today. Within minutes one can easily verify the "facts" put forth on standard mediums. Too often we discover major differences in what we read or hear and what we know to be the truth, the complete truth. This is THE reason newspapers are failing in droves. If people could pick up a newspaper and read the salacious and unabashed stories that entail the happenings in our world they would still sit down and read a paper. But when we know at the outset we may have to doubt or suspect what we read, then what's the point? I can read three major newspapers and without fail get three very different perspectives on what can only be one set of facts. And chances are none of the three are actually telling the complete story. You would think the publishers would realize this. They forgot their readership were adults. Idiots don't read newspapers......Well, they do now.
If there is one thing missing universally from wingnut writers is creativity. Well that and judgment. Oh, and writing skills...did I mention rational thought process?
And don't forget spelling!
what a douche, *EVERYONE* remembers Ben Domenech!!!!!
I dared to question Sarah Palin's exaggerated qualifications in one of their articles.
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Yours, and another comment or two have inferred you were banned, etc. from different sites for provocative comments. At least in their moderators view. That editorial cancer seems to be slowly but surely spreading to some of the heretofore progressive/liberal blogs. Actually, it appears to me, the bigger and more influential some of these blogs have become, the more "careful" they are not to offend the powers they began their blogs to confront. This is worrisome and disappointing. When comments are deleted or not posted simply because the content is too frank or revealing, or referencing to an obvious but unmentionable central culprit is not what has made the Netroots the power it is and will become. These particular blogs make these "editorial" decisions at their own peril. Just ask the former readers of the Washington Post and New York Times, among most other failing news mediums.
to question their twisted view of reality.
Can't think. Can't write. Can't govern. Wingnuts just lack skills. Period.
The fact that the people that own the media have a vested interest in controling the content.
As long as this situation exists the press is dead!
"As Matt Y writes: 'What the right lacks are people with the skill to do the job'."
Surely you aren't suggesting that lack of competence is a negative for conservatives! On advice from The Heritage Foundation and others, appointments in the current administration have been based on loyalty rather than competence. (Present perfect tense deliberate, since ideologues are still being appointed to permanent civil service positions.)
If you believe that government should demonstrate its irrelevance by failing, then the more incompetence, the better. And for authoritarians, principles always trickle down. For Gordon Gecko, "Greed is good!" For contemporary conservatives, "Incompetence is good!"
...We can point to the corporations that dominate the World. Teddy Roosevelt smashed a few of them way back when, and I am hoping Obama and Congress, at the Public's insistence, will break up the Media Monopoly. The designers of the Constitution KNEW there cannot be an honest government without a Free Press. No accident that the press (as opposed to Today's "Media") was often referred to as "The 4th Branch". After destroying the 4th Branch, the Neocons & their lick-spittles went to work Christianizing/destroying the Justice Dept, neutering Congress, and making the Presidency far too powerful.
Will Obama have the strength and conviction to even attempt to reverse this. Power is so exhilarating, so addicting! Few have been able to give it up voluntarily.
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