N0. 1 and No. 2 on the list:
1) Obama’s lack of emotional connection.It’s all the rage at the moment to denounce the president’s cool and his “inability to connect.” Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: Change you can believe in. What happened to him?
Nothing, as it turns out… Obama was always this guy.
2) Newspapers are dying because of the Internet. Investigative journalism is finished!
What a load of Spam! American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long a whole generation gave up on them. They needed to innovate back in the Fax Age of the 1980s but were too self-important and making too much money with their monopolies to acknowledge it.
Read the rest of Tina Brown’s Daily Beast directive here.
More on Tina Brown and The Daily Beast:
This article appears in Dec 29, 2009 – Jan 4, 2010.
My fellow readers, I think in 2010 we should all resolve to turn the other cheek instead of bashing Frank Griffin no matter how hateful he turns towards everyone else. I noticed that in the last few hours on New Years Eve when the rest of us were spending time with family and friends, Frank was spending his time writing several posts on this blog. This tells me that while the rest of us were with loved ones he was all alone and bitter, friendless and with a family that doesn’t want him around. Such a man should be pitied, not hated. Let’s do our best to tolerate him in the new year. Peace and God bless.
“Newspapers are dying because of the Internet. Investigative journalism is finished!”
Self-described Conservative and Liberal papers are dying because they’re too pro-government. People want the truth, not statist propaganda.
The internet allows for all kinds of people to investigate on their own. It’s great! The statist media hates this.