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The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism
The war of words between the old and the new media is heating up some more. Eric Schmidt has an op-ed in Rupert Murdoch's WSJ (ironic, that) explaining to newspapers how Google wants to, and is trying to, help them. Kara Swisher's BoomTown column translates and deconstructs Schmidt's argument, hilariously. A few days back, the Washington Post's Michael Gerson became the latest journo to bemoan the death of journalism at the hands of the Internet; and investigative blogger Radley Balko quickly called B.S. on Gerson's claim that (all?) bloggers simply steal from (all?) hard-working, honest, ethical print journalists.
Yes, he is advocating exactly that. Note that he leaves CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC out of it because he presumes they wouldn't be negatively affected by regulation. That is because he is an idiot who doesn't understand that giving the government control of anything is counter to the foundations of this country and will only serve to further abuse and erode our freedoms.
O'Reilly needs another pretty dead blond girl story to be relevant again.
You guessed right, slim jim! I've been watching too much Olbermann, Maddow, and Matthews. They're rubbing off on me.