Peggy Noonan defense of bloggers
Let me just start with this: I love Peggy Noonan. OK, there, I said it. Now that that's out of the way...
Okay, okay, maybe I'm not quite done yet. Over the last several years that I've been reading Ms. Noonan's essays, I've become convinced that noone else in the opinion business combines intelligence, wit, grace, and clarity of thought as effectively as her. Maybe Charles Krauthammer, but he's not as cute. Her writings right after September 11, 2001 were a salve on an open wound, a hand on the shoulder. If you haven't read that stuff, avail yourself at this site: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/ and check her archives for hours and hours of brilliant food for the mind and the soul. But I digress...
This link: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/ will take you to her column, and today's entry is a great defense and promotion of bloggers.
Why did we believe what Walter Cronkite told us? Reputation. Why did we give Dan Rather our trust? Reputation. Why was the NYTimes considered the newspaper of record? It had earned that moniker thru years of what was taken as reporting the truth. It earned it's reputation. Jason Blair almost single-handedly destroyed that. Not just through his own fabrications and deceit, but because the paper practiced affirmative action more stridently than it did fact-checking.
We will all be able to learn, as time rolls on, which voices we believe, and in whom we'll place our trust and to whom we'll turn (or click) when we want the straight scoop.
Whether it be ABC, NBC, CBS, the NYTimes, CNN, FoxNews, Drudge, Instapundit, or Powerlineblog.
I believe that names like Matt Drudge, Glen Reynolds, and the trifecta-of-truth: Scott Johnson and John Hinderacker plus Paul Mirengoff will become very well known in the very near future.
more on this later.....
Okay, okay, maybe I'm not quite done yet. Over the last several years that I've been reading Ms. Noonan's essays, I've become convinced that noone else in the opinion business combines intelligence, wit, grace, and clarity of thought as effectively as her. Maybe Charles Krauthammer, but he's not as cute. Her writings right after September 11, 2001 were a salve on an open wound, a hand on the shoulder. If you haven't read that stuff, avail yourself at this site: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/ and check her archives for hours and hours of brilliant food for the mind and the soul. But I digress...
This link: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/ will take you to her column, and today's entry is a great defense and promotion of bloggers.
Why did we believe what Walter Cronkite told us? Reputation. Why did we give Dan Rather our trust? Reputation. Why was the NYTimes considered the newspaper of record? It had earned that moniker thru years of what was taken as reporting the truth. It earned it's reputation. Jason Blair almost single-handedly destroyed that. Not just through his own fabrications and deceit, but because the paper practiced affirmative action more stridently than it did fact-checking.
We will all be able to learn, as time rolls on, which voices we believe, and in whom we'll place our trust and to whom we'll turn (or click) when we want the straight scoop.
Whether it be ABC, NBC, CBS, the NYTimes, CNN, FoxNews, Drudge, Instapundit, or Powerlineblog.
I believe that names like Matt Drudge, Glen Reynolds, and the trifecta-of-truth: Scott Johnson and John Hinderacker plus Paul Mirengoff will become very well known in the very near future.
more on this later.....
posted by Brad @ 2:30 PM
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