Comments on: These Anonymous Critics ARE Cowards http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/09/these-anonymous-critics-are-cowards/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Delia http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/09/these-anonymous-critics-are-cowards/comment-page-1/#comment-2765 Delia Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:05:27 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1526#comment-2765 re: "It’s a perfect example of why anonymous critics should not be taken seriously"... (...)... "The anonymous comment on a blog or news article deserves less than no credibility." you are just as wrong on this, no matter how many times you repeat it... (for some odd reason you keep forgetting that the quality of the criticism is what makes it deserving or undeserving, not the source per se -- makes me think you want to discredit critics... period! and pointing-out anonymity is just a convenient pretext...). Delia re: “It’s a perfect example of why anonymous critics should not be taken seriously”… (…)… “The anonymous comment on a blog or news article deserves less than no credibility.”

you are just as wrong on this, no matter how many times you repeat it… (for some odd reason you keep forgetting that the quality of the criticism is what makes it deserving or undeserving, not the source per se — makes me think you want to discredit critics… period! and pointing-out anonymity is just a convenient pretext…).

Delia

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/09/these-anonymous-critics-are-cowards/comment-page-1/#comment-2764 Jon Garfunkel Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:02:07 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1526#comment-2764 Speaking for many, Josh Marshall explained why he couldn't help but echo this story: "Part of me thinks I shouldn't be watching Fox News reporter and sometimes fabulist Carl Cameron dishing the McCain campaign's dirt on Sarah Palin. But well, when Mothra goes up against Godzilla, how can you not watch?" (28 hours later, after posting a reader comment, he fesses up to being "more than a little skeptical myself.") That's the "echo-sphere" for ya: how can you not watch? Speaking for many, Josh Marshall explained why he couldn’t help but echo this story:

“Part of me thinks I shouldn’t be watching Fox News reporter and sometimes fabulist Carl Cameron dishing the McCain campaign’s dirt on Sarah Palin. But well, when Mothra goes up against Godzilla, how can you not watch?”

(28 hours later, after posting a reader comment, he fesses up to being “more than a little skeptical myself.”)

That’s the “echo-sphere” for ya: how can you not watch?

]]> By: CTDarling http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/09/these-anonymous-critics-are-cowards/comment-page-1/#comment-2763 CTDarling Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:58:54 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1526#comment-2763 C'mon really who really cares, Palin was meeted out with the calibre and content of her own campaign lies which really may be the point here in this volley of un-owned fluff (Africa's not a country?)( she deserves such). Yes, certainly it is deplorable but look at so much of the coverage ; sound bite city, thin info , sensationalistic drivel which one has to say Fox loves to up their numbers with; the "lot less filling" bombastic sensationalistic uneven-ness of quasi journalism thrown into their mix so when one sums it up from FOX; What were you expecting? Quality journalism Please. Everyone knows they need a serious house cleaning @ Fox to be taken seriously. C’mon really who really cares, Palin was meeted out with the calibre and content of her own campaign lies which really may be the point here in this volley of un-owned fluff (Africa’s not a country?)( she deserves such). Yes, certainly it is deplorable but look at so much of the coverage ; sound bite city, thin info , sensationalistic drivel which one has to say Fox loves to up their numbers with; the “lot less filling” bombastic sensationalistic uneven-ness of quasi journalism thrown into their mix so when one sums it up from FOX; What were you expecting? Quality journalism Please. Everyone knows they need a serious house cleaning @ Fox to be taken seriously.

]]> By: Tim Windsor http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/09/these-anonymous-critics-are-cowards/comment-page-1/#comment-2762 Tim Windsor Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:01:47 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1526#comment-2762 Dan, I couldn't agree with you more. Forget the partisan nature of the attacks, for a journalist to use such quotes as anything more than background information to drive an investigation that ends at facts and details that can be attributed and verified is just lazy journalism. That it appears in one of the top two news weeklies is doubly disappointing. Dan,

I couldn’t agree with you more. Forget the partisan nature of the attacks, for a journalist to use such quotes as anything more than background information to drive an investigation that ends at facts and details that can be attributed and verified is just lazy journalism. That it appears in one of the top two news weeklies is doubly disappointing.

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