Friday, July 23, 2010
The Great Media Conspiracy
Even though the JournoList shows its members were confined to the usual-suspect lefty opinion writers who absolutely loathe the MSM, some on the right-wing aren't giving up their all-purpose intellectual duct tape that holds together so many flimsy arguments (i.e. blame the media when all else fails):
Update -- My all-time favorite blame-the-media, full-reverse non-mea culpa mea culpa. You see, the media may have got it right. Therefore, it got it wrong. Get it? ... Still, just to be on the safe side, I think I'm going to poke around the Herald basement when I get to work later today. You never know if a splinter JournoLister cell is holding secret meetings in an abandoned printing-press wing. It wouldn't surprise me at all to catch Jules chairing one of the gatherings. His views have always struck me as suspiciously too conservative. Do you know what I mean?
Even though the JournoList shows its members were confined to the usual-suspect lefty opinion writers who absolutely loathe the MSM, some on the right-wing aren't giving up their all-purpose intellectual duct tape that holds together so many flimsy arguments (i.e. blame the media when all else fails):
So: To all you non-JournoLister reporters out there, please be aware that your credibility has just taken a big hit, because we, your faithful readers, don’t actually know who is or who isn’t. You can thank JournoList for that, you can thank Ezra Klein, and you can thank the Washington Post, which has done its outstanding professionals absolutely no favors in any of this.
Update -- My all-time favorite blame-the-media, full-reverse non-mea culpa mea culpa. You see, the media may have got it right. Therefore, it got it wrong. Get it? ... Still, just to be on the safe side, I think I'm going to poke around the Herald basement when I get to work later today. You never know if a splinter JournoLister cell is holding secret meetings in an abandoned printing-press wing. It wouldn't surprise me at all to catch Jules chairing one of the gatherings. His views have always struck me as suspiciously too conservative. Do you know what I mean?
