{"id":3099,"date":"2005-02-21T04:55:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/fear-and-loathing-in-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2005-02-21T04:55:16","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T11:55:16","slug":"fear-and-loathing-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/21\/fear-and-loathing-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAfter the Eason Jordan purge, LA Times bureaucrat David Shaw fears bloggers are after his scalp:<\/a><\/p>\n

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…bloggers appear to have achieved almost mythical power these days.<\/p>\n

Bloggers can be useful. They did a good job, for example, in bringing the Rather\/CBS screw-up to public attention. But some bloggers are just self-important ranters who seem to wake up every morning convinced that the entire Free World awaits their opinions on any subject that’s popped into their heads since their last fevered post.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when these bloggers rise up in arms, grown men weep — and news executives cave in. That’s much more alarming than anything Jordan said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it’s alarming that the MSM can’t get away with its traditional shenanigans any more, but I’m sure they’ll invent some new ones. Currently, it seems they’re having a hard time getting the script right about bloggers — a couple of months ago, we were a few nuts in pajamas, and now we’re still overheated ranters, but nevertheless a threat to the free press. That’s a pretty major promotion, isn’t it?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the Eason Jordan purge, LA Times bureaucrat David Shaw fears bloggers are after his scalp: …bloggers appear to have achieved almost mythical power these days. Bloggers can be useful. They did a good job, for example, in bringing the Rather\/CBS screw-up to public attention. But some bloggers are just self-important ranters who seem to … Continue reading “Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-NZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}