Daily Archives: September 21st, 2004 «

 

So I was wondering how to increase blog traffic

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2004 at 10:20 pm » Comments Off

And came across this piece from Right Wing News that sort of explained it all. Makes me feel better. Well, a little. 2 YEARS?? Ok, I promise to work really REALLY hard

 

New career for Dan Rather?

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2004 at 8:07 pm » Comments Off

Tokyo Blonde thinks so Also: Revealed! The man who brought down Dan Rather.

 

Democracy, traditional news media benefit from bloggers

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2004 at 11:21 am » Comments Off

The Daily Oakland Press gets it: Though the mainline media paid little attention, an uproar about a CBS television claim signals a change in the news business all consumers should be aware of. Longtime nightly news anchorman and sometime “60 Minutes” presenter Dan Rather told viewers about 10 days ago that newly discovered Air National [...]

 

Individual soldiers are changing lives for better in Iraq

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2004 at 11:12 am » 3 Comments

A much needed heartwarming story on progress in Iraq, something we don’t hear about near enough these days: During the Iran-Iraq War, an Iraqi tank commander tried to recover his senses after an Iranian shell had destroyed his tank. His fellow soldiers were dead, and, realizing that his own legs were gone, the soldier dragged [...]

 

Belief in a fair press long gone

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2004 at 11:09 am » Comments Off

An analogy from the SF Chronicle’s Tim Goodman that is spot on: Everybody in journalism wants there to be a perception of objectiveness, but that boat has sailed. And for television news, the downfall began when journalists participated in roundtable, issue-arguing shows that the cameras loved so much. The spiral quickened when 24-hour-cable channels were [...]

 

CBS arranged for meeting with Lockhart

Posted by: ST on September 21, 2004 at 9:06 am » Comments Off

This just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Will Collier speculates: So, let me get this straight. CBS just spent more than a week “protecting” the identity of Burkett, refusing to release his name to the general public–but they did put him in touch with a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign, before their story ran? [...]