Sunday, February 06, 2005
TimeMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
I'm gone for almost two months to come back to Jarvis still bitchin' about Eric Alterman's comments concerning the Iraqi bloggers.
It appears that a long dormant quality has resurfaced in the journalism of our information age: The most vile kind of partisan warping of facts. I can't blame it (wholely) on the MSM, blogs or the supposed liberal bias of the media.
The innuendo, the lie and the half-baked fact seem to be the coin of the realm. When Hastert can go on Fox to make a connection between Soros and drug money without the slightest bit of support other than Hastert's personal ignorance of how Soros makes his money, something is wrong in the flow of information. But this isn't a "they did it first" defense for Alterman.
No, it probably wasn't Alterman's finest hour. It is not the kind of thing that I'd like to think that I would do. But Alterman has passed over from being merely a journalist to also being a political/idealogical operative.
As for Jarvis; well, I have a little bet for him. I've got ten bucks that says more than one of the bloggers he listed in his Iraqi elections round-up post received significant CIA\Republican\Conservative support. If the dust ever clears from this mess maybe we'll know for sure. I've written on this before.
¶ 2/06/2005 09:55:00 PM
It appears that a long dormant quality has resurfaced in the journalism of our information age: The most vile kind of partisan warping of facts. I can't blame it (wholely) on the MSM, blogs or the supposed liberal bias of the media.
The innuendo, the lie and the half-baked fact seem to be the coin of the realm. When Hastert can go on Fox to make a connection between Soros and drug money without the slightest bit of support other than Hastert's personal ignorance of how Soros makes his money, something is wrong in the flow of information. But this isn't a "they did it first" defense for Alterman.
No, it probably wasn't Alterman's finest hour. It is not the kind of thing that I'd like to think that I would do. But Alterman has passed over from being merely a journalist to also being a political/idealogical operative.
As for Jarvis; well, I have a little bet for him. I've got ten bucks that says more than one of the bloggers he listed in his Iraqi elections round-up post received significant CIA\Republican\Conservative support. If the dust ever clears from this mess maybe we'll know for sure. I've written on this before.
¶ 2/06/2005 09:55:00 PM
