CNN about to have "Blog Report" after this commercial 3:50 pm est N/T

[Ian David]

[rocktivity]

1. What does that mean? They've assigned someone to monitor the blogs?

And will be atone for their own sins if the bloggers catch them again? Can't they tell they're making fools of themselves, trying to take them on this way?

:headbang:
rockation

[Cocoa]

2. let us know what they choose to highlight

[Ian David]

3. NYT credits bush with ADVANCING relations in Mid-East??

Cons linking to editorial in NYT crediting Bush for ADVANCING relations in The Middle East (?!?!?!) comparing it to fall of Soviet Union.

[Ian David]

4. Today's atomic bomb is Democracy and it's been dropped on Iraq??

Comparing the mid-east to Iwo Jima???

[Ian David]

5. Elizabeth Edwards admits to secretly posting on blogs under pseudonym

She won't say which blogs, or what name she used. But she says she stopped when her husband started his campaign.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. That doesn't surprise me.

After all, she did post on DU a few times.

[Cocoa]

6. that's in their "blog report?"

that sounds like RW talking points that you can hear constantly in the mainstream media, and from the White House itself.

Is that what this "blog craze" that I've been hearing about is all about?

[AnnInLa]

13. those are only the RW blogs

I've seen them report on TPM and Atrios...and interview Josh Marshall.

[papau]

8. Mideast Climate change NYT ED below- Assume w/o Bush Saddam still in power

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/opinion/01tue1.html

Mideast Climate Change

It's not even spring yet, but a long-frozen political order seems to be cracking all over the Middle East. Cautious hopes for something new and better are stirring along the Tigris and the Nile, the elegant boulevards of Beirut, and the impoverished towns of the Gaza Strip. It is far too soon for any certainties about ultimate outcomes. In Iraq, a brutal insurgency still competes for headlines with post-election democratic maneuvering. Yesterday a suicide bomber plowed into a crowd of Iraqi police and Army recruits, killing at least 122 people - the largest death toll in a single such bombing since the American invasion nearly two years ago. And the Palestinian terrorists who blew up a Tel Aviv nightclub last Friday underscored the continuing fragility of what has now been almost two months of steady political and diplomatic progress between Israelis and Palestinians.

Still, this has so far been a year of heartening surprises - each one remarkable in itself, and taken together truly astonishing. The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances. It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy at a time when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance. And for all the negative consequences that flowed from the American invasion of Iraq, there could have been no democratic elections there this January if Saddam Hussein had still been in power. Washington's challenge now lies in finding ways to nurture and encourage these still fragile trends without smothering them in a triumphalist embrace.

Lebanon's political reawakening took a significant new turn yesterday when popular protests brought down the pro-Syrian government of Prime Minister Omar Karami. Syria's occupation of Lebanon, nearly three decades long, started tottering after the Feb. 14 assassination of the country's leading independent politician, the former prime minister Rafik Hariri.
<snip>
Last weekend's surprise announcement of plans to hold at least nominally competitive presidential elections in Egypt could prove even more historic, although many of the specific details seem likely to be disappointing. Egypt is the Arab world's most populous country and one of its most politically influential. In more than five millenniums of recorded history, it has never seen a truly free and competitive election.
<snip>

Over the past two decades, as democracies replaced police states across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, and a new economic dynamism lifted hundreds of millions of eastern and southern Asia out of poverty and into the middle class, the Middle East stagnated in a perverse time warp that reduced its brightest people to hopelessness or barely contained rage. The wonder is less that a new political restlessness is finally visible, but that it took so long to break through the ice.

[merbex]

7. They've been doing this for about a week

2 women pulling up blogs and talking about what is being said on the "internets"

[rocktivity]

11. But if they're going to pick and choose, what's the point?

It would be more productive, I think, to pick four different blogs and cover them every day.

I get the feeling that the Bush White House has "assinged" CNN to vaporize the blogosphere.

:shrug:

[comsymp]

17. I disagree

I think that the MSM has taken on that assignment all by themselves. Competition, y'know.

If they'd only go back to researching and reporting, they'd be fine.

ON EDIT- damn, tasteblind nailed my point in #9, below.

[mattclearing]

9. Let me guess...

"Bloggers...sometimes right, often inaccurate, never as knowledgeable as the omniscient CNN!"

"Let's go to our panel of gibberish-spouting know-nothing jackasses..."

[Guaranteed]

18. LOL

:)

[otohara]

10. Aren't They Just The Hippest Corporate Media Whorish Network

out there?

Wow CNN I'm impressed - welcome to the the future of news and discussion, assholes.

[Ian David]

12. Why doesn't someone just spend all day emailing them stuff from DU LBN?

[otohara]

14. Oh We've Sent Them So Many E-mails & Info - They Get Worse

not better -

I do however continue to e-mail specific whores when Media Matters catches them in lying and they post their e-mails to write in and mention they are "lying again"

Sign up at: http://mediamatters.org/
for daily e-mails on the latest media lies.

[Ian David]

15. How about emailing them the most ridiculous/hateful right-wing posts then?

[otohara]

16. But Then I'd Have To Read Them

and I'm not into self torcher - I don't watch CNN & others anymore AT ALL for the same reason.