{"id":30364,"date":"2012-06-12T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30364"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:50:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:50:47","slug":"sally-quinn-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30364","title":{"rendered":"Sally Quinn; irrelevant and tearful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Post<\/a> columnist, Sally Quinn who famously slept her way up the Washington power ladder, laments the fact that she has been ingloriously toppled by people with a vision for the future and who left behind the Old Media and their Old Ideas;<\/p>\n

Journalists used to be powerful. But now there are so many 25-year-old bloggers, many of them showing up on the TV talk shows, that the old-timers are struggling to catch up, tweeting their hearts out and using hip language like \u201chashtags.\u201d And those young bloggers care about money, too. There aren\u2019t enough jobs, and newspapers and Web sites are struggling to make profits. Even the people on top are insecure. Nobody knows when he or she is going to be let go; the guillotine drops on media stars with alarming frequency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, when you have journalists whose bible is the AP Stylebook, and their stock in trade is their arrogance without substance, what did you expect? To illustrate; yesterday’s example<\/a> of the Washington Post’s media critic, Howard Kurtz telling us that the president doesn’t make gaffes because the media understands what he’s saying.<\/p>\n

Maybe if the media talked with us instead of to us, maybe if they let us be a part of the conversation instead of complaining that blogs have no standards of ethics, they wouldn’t be losing their influence in the national discourse. Blogs do have standards, you know. If I make a mistake, you people have no problem telling me about it, and I correct it. If the Washington Post makes a mistake, there’s virtually no way to tell them about it, and, if by some miracle, we get through, they sniff and haw about how we must mistaken.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I still have a bug up my ass about how TSO was treated by many in the media last week. We found out who our friends are in the space of a few hours. The Washington Post and the Associated Press ain’t among them. Oddly enough, MSNBC came out the stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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