tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post1601570338327440563..comments2024-03-01T00:27:42.852-08:00Comments on Hammer Of The Blogs: Let's All Go to the Lobby (Slight Return)Heywood J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-82609025681472821462008-02-24T22:52:00.000-08:002008-02-24T22:52:00.000-08:00Yeah, at the local level, I imagine that covering ...Yeah, at the local level, I imagine that covering national or international politics away from the newswire would, from the standpoint of management, require some amount of editorializing. But I think you're on to something in general -- it's not a coincidence that the mainstream corporate media prefers to streamline the model, and the subsidiaries directly feed off that model.Heywood J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05627748699423939682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9908604.post-56850874414241226392008-02-24T14:41:00.000-08:002008-02-24T14:41:00.000-08:00Hey! I work for a local fishwrap, and I (nor anyon...Hey! I work for a local fishwrap, and I (nor anyone I work with) would f**k up a story that badly. (Not that we're allowed to cover politics above the city council level. That's what we have AP for, we're told). It's almost as if the people who own the media would rather have their readers get their political "news" from incompetent assclowns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com