Tuesday, June 12, 2007

New Media vs Old Media

http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/06/the_baghdad_order_of_4.php

This is a wholesale demolition job of a report in the New York Times which shows to superb effect the traction that the 'new' media is getting over its far-longer established rivals. By calling on a vast array of detailed knowledge and irreproachable fact, Bill Roggio et al reveal the NYT article for the limp frippery that it is. The New York Times had and still in some places has the reputation of being a Grand Newspaper from the Grand Tradition of Newspapers. Trouble is, when your reporting is as desultory as this, reputations can be lost in a very short of time. 'The Fourth Rail' is just so much better for accurate, nimbly-corrected-when-wrong, pertinent, up-to-date news about the frontlines of the war against world-wide Wahhabism (and Iraq). I will get around to sending your PayPal account some dough, Bill, honestly.

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