Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet

[Primbs]

Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet

"To the extent that you know there's someone monitoring every word, it probably compels you to be even more careful, which is a good thing," said Chris Bury, the "Nightline" correspondent

Reporters say that these developments are forcing them to change how they do their jobs; some are asking themselves if they can justify how they are filtering information.

But the power of blogs is exponential; blog posts can be linked and replicated instantly across the Web, creating a snowball effect that often breaks through to the mainstream media. Moreover, blogs have a longer shelf life than most traditional news media articles. A newspaper reporter's original article is likely to disappear from the free Web site after a few days and become inaccessible unless purchased from the newspaper's archives, while the blogger's version of events remains available forever.



http://www.nytimes.forever.com/2006...d=1&ei=5090&en=d29184756032beac&ex=1293858000...

 

[pauleocon]

This is a very good reason to think about what we say. We're proud of Ron Paul, so we need to ensure that we reflect well on him, so he can be proud to call us his supporters.

 

[ConstitutionGal]

This is a very good reason to think about what we say. We're proud of Ron Paul, so we need to ensure that we reflect well on him, so he can be proud to call us his supporters.

See the third post at this thread:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=370172#post370172


We MUST THINK before we act/write and if you wouldn't want Dr. Paul to have to read it during a television appearance - DON'T say or send it!!

 

[Chickensoup]

I can understand peoples frustrations. When you watch most media coverage that is even trying to be unbiased (i.e. not extremely right of left winged channels like Fox News), their coverage is at least semi-fair. people will state they don't believe the message of the person but they let them speak and don't openly slander.

Then Ron Paul comes up and all of a sudden Ron Paul or his supporters are:
1) 9/11 truthers
2) anarchists
3) support terrorists
4) racist
and the absolute worst piece of news reporting about a candidate I have ever seen or heard in my entire life
5) Ron Paul supporters are "pretty nerdy and hardcore" "wear Revolutionary War cloths everywhere" "there's a lot of freaks out there"

This is the crap people that support Ron Paul have to go up against. To be honest I can see most people never listening to a single thing Ron Paul has to say and going off of these kinds of reports and just disregarding him. Should it be that way? No. But face it, we live in a shallow, materialistic society who gets their news 5 minutes at a time while watching the mirning news program. These media types need to stop reporting any good Ron Paul news with bad crap about him when they do nothing of the sorts with other candidates