Comments on: Media Babies Still Upset HuffPo Called On At Last Press Conference

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:19:21 +0000

Quaker, thanks very much. I guess if The Week Ahead had been in quotes or caps it would have been easier.

I was trying to just list blogs with multiple-contributors (any nominations for right wing blogs? I can’t think of any that don’t make me queasy.).

Hot Air? That would be a hoot.

By: durablend

durablend — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:35:56 +0000

I was trying to just list blogs with multiple-contributors (any nominations for right wing blogs? I can’t think of any that don’t make me queasy.).

Don’t give them ideas. I can just see one of the nuts here show up along with the wingnut du jour dentist-slash-lawyer looking for Obama’s birth certificate. Though it might be fun to see them thrown out of the building by security!

By: News Reference

News Reference — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:26:11 +0000

“And our host?”

Has my vote to be the MediaMatters representative.

I was trying to just list blogs with multiple-contributors (any nominations for right wing blogs? I can’t think of any that don’t make me queasy.).

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:13:00 +0000

TPM, HuffPo, ThinkProgress, MediaMatters, and throw in TheModerateVoice, and some right winger blogger for balance.

a-HEM!!

And our host?

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:11:28 +0000

@Duros:

In the week ahead on Friday that we e-mailed out we discussed the news conference on Wednesday starting at 9:00 p.m.

On Friday, Mr. Gibbs (referring to himself as “we”) e-mailed a summary of upcoming events titled “The Week Ahead.” In the most recent e-mail, he mentioned that the Wednesday news conference was scheduled to begin at 9 p.m.

Mr. Gibbs goes on to say that the news conference has been rescheduled to begin an hour earlier. This announcement apparently meets with approval from the assembled members of the “press” (presumably because it gives them an extra hour to file their perfunctory coverage of the event before dinner and drinks. Mr. Gibbs makes merry with this response and whimsically proposes advancing the scheduled start time an additional hour.

It puzzled me too. But I’m good at puzzles.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:47:57 +0000

“Which is why the real, professional, journalistic media ask that sort of question and stay far away from ‘news.’”

Bullshit. Alternative media did a much better job of “hard” journalism over the past decade while David Gregory was busy dancing with MC Rove.

By: News Reference

News Reference — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:29:36 +0000

Who was the corporate news weasel who was whining?

Frankly I’d get a kick out of having one (just one) press conference where only bloggers got called:

TPM, HuffPo, ThinkProgress, MediaMatters, and throw in TheModerateVoice, and some right winger blogger for balance.

Of course that would trigger a petulance parade from the corporate media so will likely never happen, still…

… one can hope.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:34:34 +0000

In the week ahead on Friday that we e-mailed out we discussed the news conference on Wednesday starting at 9:00 p.m.

I cannot parse this. Is he talking in future tense?

By: Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:43:43 +0000

The American public is far more interesting in knowing whether Mr. Obama wears boxers of briefs than knowing what is taking place in Iran.

Which is why the real, professional, journalistic media ask that sort of question and stay far away from “news.”

Damn bloggers are going to screw up a good thing if they keep prying like that.