Media Watch watch
How sweet the sound of Liz Jackson of Media Watch getting confused about the blogging world. Rattling on last night in an attack against Janet Albrechtson and local Brisbane blogger, Arthur Chrenkoff, Liz makes a huge point of the fact that Arthur’s articles on the Wall Street Journal’s website Opinion Journal are not published by the Wall street Journal.
Maybe the ABC should tell the Wall Street Journal to remove their WSJ.com logo from the site as it’s confusing Liz. With Wall Street Journal links all over the Opinion Journal page and vise versa I don’t quite accept Liz’s arguement that;
Good News from Iraq is not published on the highly respected Wall Street Journal website — it’s a blog published by a sister site.Chrenkoff has mentioned the Media Watch attack as has Tim Blair. Go there and be sure to read the comments. They are illuminating. If Media Watch feel obliged to attack bloggers, then our pressure on the MSM is being felt. It is, in effect, a compliment to Arthur for all the hard yards he does in trying to balance the MSM bias and will give him a hits boost. Liz’s bias is plain to see for all those that care and her prattling on about minor details only tends to reinforce this bias. To prove she isn’t biased, Liz finds a suitable quote about the Iraq War.
Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest… I leave when I have a very good reason to and a scheduled interview. I avoid going to people’s homes and never walk in the streets … I … can’t strike up a conversation with strangers, can’t look for stories, can’t drive in anything but a full armoured car, can’t go to the scenes of breaking stories, … can’t take a road trip, can’t say I’m American, can’t linger at check points, can’t be curious about what people are saying, doing, feeling. — Farnaz Fassihi, 29 Sept 2004Ah, that’s better, it’s negative. Good show, Arthur. Keep up your ‘Good News’ series and publish it where you will. People will seek you out for what you say that the MSM doesn’t and will not give a fig about you’re being paid or not. Nor will they care if they have to click once to follow the link. Update: This is getting serious and for the record I think the word Chrenkhoffgate needs to be mentioned. At Tim Blairs place he has follow up pieces at Media Watch II and Media Watch III
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Illuminating alright. Chrenkoff is little more than a plagarist and Blair’s his apologist. Good news from Iraq? You’re kidding, right?
Troll tracks on the carpet, Kev.
No, I’m not kidding. Chrenkoff doesn’t plagiarize, he extracts and links to the relevant site. To call Tim an apolgost presumes Chrenkoff has done something wrong. Highlighting positive views of the Iraq war may upset you but it’s drawing a long bow to say he’s wrong.
PQ. True, What I need is a cyber M16 mine.
Who let the hippy out? Got a job yet Naill, or are my taxes still keeping you fed and clothed? You’d do better to spend your mid afternoons looking for work, rather than trolling people’s sites.
You need more cow bell, Kev.
Kev, In Niall’s defense he is just a confused as his colleague Chris Shiels on the deffinishion of “plaigiarist”. So I give the mimic and failure a free pass on this one as they say you cant squeeze blood out of a stone.
http://www.gravett.org/sauce/archives/006334.html
Ahhh, the clowns are still about I see. Good stuff. On the subject of Chrenkoff, he’s simply copying someone elses articles and putting his spin on them. Good news from a war zone. That’s a hot one! Especially from Iraq.
By the way, Chief, you clearly haven’t been paying a lot of attention to current events of late, have you?
“he’s simply copying someone elses articles and putting his spin on them.”
Just when I think Niall couldn’t possibly go deeper he proves me wrong.
err that would copying extracts and linking to the original.
I await your claim Ken Parish, Chris Shiels or 99% of bloggers and um you with plagiarism.
No Niall no one can De-Niall the bad news from Iraq but you are doing a good job of doing the just that with the good news.
If the current events involve you being involved in swapping your time for money in an environment with your clothes on, then I say welcome back to productive society.
Feeling defensive?
Nup. Not at all. Good news from Iraq? Show me some. And stories about little boys getting prothetic limbs in America don’t count.
Y’know, you guys might really be worth the effort if you’d drop the caustic pretences and actually bring forth an argument.
You know, Naill’s right. Saddam at least kept the electricity on in his palaces all the time.