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I’m blogging this from the Mark Goodson Screening Room at AFI, where I’ve arrived early for tonight’s big blogosphere event, “The Inside Story: Hollywood and the Media Deconstructed.” This is going to be very cool. Kevin Drum, Charles Johnson, Mickey Kaus, Roger L. Simon, Matt Welch, and Moxie are all on the panel “The Real Story: L.A. Bloggers Take On Politics and the Media.”
On the way over I was thinking that we could use a slang term for people who are kept in the dark by the media. I think I came up with a good one: “Mushrooms.”
I’ll try using it tonight, and we’ll see if it catches on.
A round-up of a few of the blog posts that I found the most interesting:
A moving story of heroism and courage on the part of our soldiers in Iraq, that saved the life of a Newsweek reporter. Yet Newseek never printed the story about what happened. From BlackFive:
The one part that I left out of this post is that Major Schram’s convoy was followed by a car with a Newsweek reporter in it. Once the action began, the reporter and his driver turned and got the hell out of there. If it wasn’t for Mat’s charge up into the ambushers, they never would have made it out of there alive.
Newsweek never ran a story about my good friend, Mat.
It took a few weeks for me to decide what to do.
I had been reading Stephen Den Beste, Bill Whittle, Frank J.’s IMAO, and Misha for awhile at that point.
I started Blackfive and decided to write about Mat and other Americans like him – people that Newsweek would never tell you about.
And from BlackFive today:
When John Kerry pledges better treatment of veterans, he probably means he won’t make blanket statements accusing them all of war crimes.
Read the whole thing. The whole article is spot-on.
A massive amount of good news from Iraq, from Chrenkoff.
The Democratic party, as seen by a former Democrat. From Everything I Know is Wrong:
I was a Democratic voter for most of my life and I know what they want – but I dont know why they think theyre getting it from Democrats.
... I wanted the same things then, as a Democrat, that I want now as a conservative. I wanted racial equality. I wanted a government that would uphold the Constitution and fight for increased personal freedom. I wanted lower taxes (not no taxes) and greater government efficiency. I wanted a government that would provide a safety net for its citizens, not a hammock. I wanted a government that would stay out of my life as much as possible, and wage war as little as possible, but not flinch when war was necessary. I wanted religious freedom.
...They say they are the party of diversity (by which they mean they will keep the races as far away from partnership with each other as possible, and defend institutional racism under the misleading name of affirmative action). They say they will uphold the Constitution (by which they mean they will enact campaign finance laws to restrict political speech, and will endeavor to undermine the second amendment). They say they want more freedom (by which they mean they want more taxation to pay for a larger government to control you more completely).
...The Democratic Party may still be able to win elections. They may be able to win policy fights. But they have lost the ability to do it simply because it is the right thing to do. They only do it for political leverage. Democrats, the members of the party, not the leadership, need to dump their leaders and build a new party. A party which actually stands for what its members want it to stand for. A party that will fight for right, because it is right, not because it is politically expedient.
Read the whole thing.
And to conclude on a lighter note—Tivo Users Watch More Commercials, from Say Anything:
Men’s News Daily – Digital video recorders (DVR) typically are seen as the ultimate threat to TV advertising, giving consumers unsurpassed control over what they choose to watch or not watch on their TV sets, including TV commercials. And while it is true that most DVR subscribers do fast-forward through TV commercials when watching programming in replay mode, new research indicates that the net effect of DVRs actually increases the likelihood that viewers will see a TV commercial not decrease it.
This is great news for the whole TV business, which had been thinking that ad-supported TV will go away as more people use Tivo and other similar devices. There had been a lot of questions about how the networks would be able to stay in business if their whole business model went out the window. So this is good news for those who like to watch TV as well.
