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« MOONBATS! MOONBATS! MOONBATS! | Main | CBS Affiliate Rebels » October 02, 2004
NOTICE TO NEW READERS: The Inevitable Conflict of Blog Journalism
Posted by Bill Visitor "gob" leaves the following comment under the light-hearted moonbat post below: This post seems so beneath this site. What are you doing?! [G]ob is obviously new to the site since Rathergate, or perhaps even Draftgate, and may be expressing a sentiment shared by other new INDC readers when they come for a dose of Bob Shieffer or Sue Niederer, and instead get an eyeful of ... "Pinkman." I've been worried about INDC giving off mixed messages to confused customers, so let's clear the air and stake a few cautionary theses to the old church door: 1. In addition to very serious material and largely straightforward journalism, this site does humor. The site's author likes humor. Humor makes children smile and sick people well. Yay. 2. This is a personal web site. The author is not paid a salary to write material. 3. Sarcastic commentary in the odd analysis post is like oxygen and sunshine. 4. The author is not paid to write material. 5. Serious posts that may have an impact on the national debate will be evident by their serious tone, sarcastic posts will be distinguished by their use of ... sarcasm, and confusing parody or satire will henceforth be clearly labeled "parody" or "satire" by the end of the piece. 6. Sometimes this site will feature bad words; the author will relish every instance. 7. If you don't enjoy humor with your news or analysis, INDC enthusiastically endorses CSPAN, The Belmont Club and Scrappleface. It's rumored that Captain Ed and the Q and O guys made a joke once, but reports of subsequent laughter were implausible and unconfirmed, and their news analysis retains its daily excellence. 8. Mrs. Cheney - if you're reading - I'm sorry. 9. The author of this site often employs a painfully, confoundingly dry sense of humor. If you suspect a joke ... 10. And most importantly, the author of this site is not paid to write material. If any wildly rich patrons or mainstream media outlets would like to hire my services as a journalist, photographer, satirist or cartoonist, I'll clean up my act and focus on a single medium. But until that day ... You'll have to pry my silly protest posts from my cold, dead, fingers. Posted by Bill at October 2, 2004 09:02 AM | TrackBack (2) CommentsAuteur! Auteur! Oops. Pardon my french. Posted by: erp at October 2, 2004 09:42 AM Keep up the good satrical comments. I love them!! Semper Fi! Posted by: Bert Adams at October 2, 2004 10:21 AM Do NOT change a thing! Yeah, like you needed that bit of advice! Posted by: Chuck at October 2, 2004 10:29 AM Moonbattery is what attracted me to your site. That you have done such great other stuff only confirms that I was right to bookmark you and check in daily! And now I'm off to (finally) donate... Posted by: Steph at October 2, 2004 10:34 AM Don't change a thing! They'll come to appreciate you just the way you are. Posted by: jmflynny at October 2, 2004 10:39 AM Cognitive Dissonance - A sign that you are truly ahead of your time. Please keep it up. Posted by: Gordon at October 2, 2004 10:48 AM They'll come to appreciate you just the way you are. If only I could really believe that. (sobs quietly) It does cause me to scratch my head when I think about how blogs and serious news interact ... and the problems that it can cause. Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 2, 2004 10:51 AM Seriously now......you're a h00t! :) Posted by: mshyde at October 2, 2004 10:54 AM Someone calling himself "gob" thinks your tone is unserious? He must have missed the reminder about not owing him anything. Posted by: Ghost of a flea at October 2, 2004 11:11 AM gob's e-mail address was jashcroft@doj.gov ... hmmmmmm ... Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 2, 2004 11:14 AM You forgot to mention one thing: The author IS NOT PAID to write material. Posted by: The Zero Boss at October 2, 2004 11:22 AM hey -- only 10 theses?!? Luther wasn't being paid either and he knocked off 99. plus, I'd actually read yours. seriously, your site is just what I was looking for since I waved goodbye to the moonbats of SF a year ago. it's like the beach without the sand, the moonbats without the... snarled traffic and the high cost of falafels. the CBS without the BS. Posted by: tee bee at October 2, 2004 11:30 AM Don't henceforth label 'sarcasm, and confusing parody or satire' as parody or satire. If the idiots can't figure it out, let them suffer with their anxiety attacks. As the political operatives love to say when someone squeals after being skewered, "F**k 'em if they can't take a joke!" Posted by: Democrat for Bush at October 2, 2004 11:52 AM I for one would miss your moonbat reports. However, I'm not rich enough to pay you do keep doing them, and if anyone rich enough is willing to pay you not to do them I will, again, miss your moonbat reports. That said, you haven't bothered to classify your posts in the past and I've been able to figure out what is what. I suggest you continue on as you have and thereby keep only your more highly intelligent readers. ;^) Posted by: Lornkanaga at October 2, 2004 12:56 PM C'mon now, Bill, with all the money we pay you to write this stuff, the least you could do is be responsive. You know, if it weren't for your readers, you...well, wouldn't have any readers. I think you should change your site every time someone asks for it. You need to feel what we feel. You need to be responsive to circumstances. As your hero Big John said, certitude does you no good if you're wrong. And you need to continually doubt yourself, just as you should continually doubt your country. Because, you know, we're really bad people and we need to gain acceptance from our neighbors around the world. So that even extends to the individual, and you should be constantly reevaluating yourself based on feedback from your readers. And if they think you're off the mark, well then, you're off the mark. So take it to heart. Self-doubt is good. It helps make you more like the world wants to see you. You can become a better person that way. And you should learn French. Posted by: Boyd at October 2, 2004 01:13 PM Democrats for Bush... Alternately, as my grandmother used to say... Posted by: azlibertarian at October 2, 2004 01:13 PM Ouch, that hurt. And made me feel slimy. I'm gonna go take a shower. Posted by: Boyd at October 2, 2004 01:15 PM Your site is a prime example of the blogosphere's reversal of the old adage that you get what you pay for. I happen to like the forearm shivers you occasionally deliver to the deserving. As Buffett (Jimmy, not Warren) might say, "if we couldn't laugh we would all go insane." Posted by: The Lapsed Randian at October 2, 2004 01:58 PM Dem for Bush: Right on! I completely agree. Johnnies-come-lately who complain about Bill's sarcasm, parody, etc.: Please help yourselves to a giant helping of piping hot STFU. And be warned: If your whining causes Bill to alter his style to satisfy your humorless sense of propriety, I will hunt you down and gut you like a fish using a dull spoon. Be glad that he rejected your criticism of his own accord this time around, or the guttings would already have begun. Posted by: Matt at October 2, 2004 03:25 PM Being one of the RatherGate newbies here, I was a little surprised but very amused by Pinkman. But I think it's unfair to say documenting the sad plight of the victims of Moonbat Fever is any less important than covering other diseases such as AIDS or the Hanta Virus. Remember, with your help we CAN eliminate Moonbat Fever in our lifetimes! Posted by: TallDave at October 2, 2004 03:37 PM Please help yourselves to a giant helping of piping hot STFU. And be warned: If your whining causes Bill to alter his style to satisfy your humorless sense of propriety, I will hunt you down and gut you like a fish using a dull spoon. Uh ... hey .. uh, thanks ... Matt ... do we need to talk? Remember, with your help we CAN eliminate Moonbat Fever in our lifetimes! This is a common misperception, TallDave - Moonbattery is eternal, like nature's cycle of life and death. And you should learn French. Je devrais apprendre le français? Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 2, 2004 03:46 PM Very good, but let's see you do it in Arabic ! Posted by: Mike C. at October 2, 2004 04:02 PM أنا وجب أن أراها؛ وجب فهم؛ تعلم؛ درس؛ عمل بحمية؛ إكتشف؛ حفظ عن ظهر قلب اللغة العربية؛ العربية Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 2, 2004 04:07 PM Now do it in English cockney! Dance monkey, dance! Posted by: Grant at October 2, 2004 04:12 PM I use you now as one more conformation prior to posting my column-You are raising the bar-David Posted by: David Cobb at October 2, 2004 04:24 PM "6. Sometimes this site will feature bad words; the author will relish every instance." Do you offer hot dogs with that relish? Posted by: Stephen at October 2, 2004 04:27 PM Ya know, if I'd known it was going to come to this, I never would've invented the internet .... Posted by: Al Gore at October 2, 2004 05:09 PM Old Beauwolf English? Posted by: The Lapsed Randian at October 2, 2004 07:24 PM - Bill mayhaps yee should take it as a sign the the peoples are starting to inherently think of the top blogsites as "strictly serious journalistic sources" in place of the MSM to a greater degree than any of us may realize... - Be that as it may, hanging on to the humor side of things is the worthiest of causes since decades of time has already been filled efficiently with stoggy, pernicious, arrogant News casting by CBS and its ilk.... Posted by: Hunter at October 2, 2004 08:06 PM It seems you don't need this advice, but your expertise on moonbatology was the reason I originally found this site, and it would be a great loss to the blogosphere if you ever stopped! Posted by: Nicole Griffin at October 2, 2004 08:07 PM I think October should be officially declared Moonbat Fever Awareness Month. It also coincides nicely with Halloween, which from Bill's research we can see is fitting. Help these poor delusional souls today. With your donation, we will send the afflicted various texts by Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, and Bill O'Reilly which may serve to ease their symptoms or possibly (in rare cases) even cure them. Posted by: TallDave at October 2, 2004 11:14 PM No, Bill, no problem! I just wanted to be sure I got my point across. Posted by: Matt at October 2, 2004 11:53 PM I think items 3 and 9 are irrelevent. When I first stumbled upon your blog, I named the bookmark "Moonbat U." Posted by: TC-LeatherPenguin at October 3, 2004 12:23 AM Oh yea. All your moonbat belong to us. Posted by: willow at October 3, 2004 01:31 AM Just to provide a little aid to Bill on this Sunday morning: What, you mean he's serious? Posted by: Tim Worstall at October 3, 2004 07:37 AM Bill, I did not know you were a photographer as well (f'in GORGEOUS picture, BTW). And I wouldn't really go so far to disclaim the parodies. When you get people who think you're being serious, THAT's when the entertainment starts. I ran a site many, many, years ago called Mars Conspiracy which I put up the day we first landed on mars with the Sojourner. It was a riot with lots of photoshopped pictures. There were so many people who thought we thought we were serious that it became better to read the emails than to add to the site! Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at October 3, 2004 09:03 AM Yeah, Bill, I can see the dilemna it may pose. However, as you emphasized in your post, you are not paid to author this blog. You are not required to be a 'serious' journalist. Actually, you perform a need much more urgent than seriousness, you provide objectivity (I don't care what they say).You provide 'serious' fact-checking, in what amounts to damned near real-time, and you provide humor, when appropriate. The dilemna posed with bloggers and serious news does not start nor end with those such as yourself, but with those less responsible for the content of their blogs. And, just as with the 'MSM', it is necessary for an intelligent reader to distinguish between fact and fiction, reporting and parody. As for those readers who lack either the intelligence or the discerning eye to appreciate the difference between the Wonkettes and the Bills of the 'sphere...forget them. You will never reach them anyway...and the rest of us do "appreciate you, just the way you are". Posted by: jmflynny at October 3, 2004 06:49 PM 3507 How can this all be as nice? Check out my site http://www.pai-gow-keno.com Posted by: pai gow at October 9, 2004 12:57 AM 488 http://harley-parts.ownsthis.com motorcycle parts harley parts harley davidson parts Posted by: harley parts at October 10, 2004 02:59 PM |
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