Short version: Associated Pravda Press is threatening blogs, commenters, everyone with an exaggerated and illegal interpretation of "Fair Use". DO NOT excerpt entire articles from the AP. If you excerpt part, comment on it (with stupid snark as I do, or informed opinion as "some" others find useful). Eventually, the AP will figure out that this is as useful as the NYT "paid readers" program....
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2009 00:00 ||
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Well, these useful idiots will end up with less influence than the other useful idiots.
#2
They are going the way of the RIAA in subcontracting both discovery and threatening email approach. However, wits are already innovating ways to screw up their game.
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One type of suicide serves the purpose about as well as another. Maybe if they hurry they can catch up with NYT on the road to oblivion.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
07/25/2009 14:16 Comments ||
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with stupid snark as I do
Bullshit, Frank. You write better and smarter than the AP (not that that's saying much.) Not half bad for an engineer.
Posted by: Matt ||
07/25/2009 15:55 Comments ||
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Not half bad for an engineer.
considering how bad so many write, that's a backhanded compliment, but thanks :-)
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2009 16:10 Comments ||
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Hurray! This apparent suicide is heaven's gift to advocates of a genuinely free press as envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
AP, along with Reuters and a few now extinct dinosaur wire servies, created the myth that the media are, or even should be, unbiased. The idea of an unbiased press would have seemed quite alien to the Founding Fathers. Every rag proudly blared its agenda right from the masthead. Only with the wire services, feeding the same news to a number of different outlets, did the pretense of neutrality become important. Since this is impossible by its very nature, the wire services had to keep their biases subtle. Eventually, as the primary sources, they came to set the agenda themselves for lazy subscribers. The superficial pretense of neutrality is also effective cover for the contrarianism and nihilism that characterize the internal culture of the media-industrial complex: Their affinity for terrorists and criminals can be effectively disguised as "presenting the other side" and the "other point of view" without the messy consequences of admitting that this is, in fact, their own point of view.
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Steyn is an absolute jem. The way he deconstructs a situation and points out the absurdities w/wry humor and elegant phrasing is outstanding. I always come away better for having read his pieces.
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As professor Gates jeered at the officers, "You don't know who you're messin' with." Did Sgt. Crowley have to arrest him? Probably not. Did he allow himself to be provoked by an obnoxious buffoon? Maybe. I dunno. I wasn't there. Neither was the president of the United States, or the governor of Massachusetts or the mayor of Cambridge. All of whom have declared themselves firmly on the side of the Ivy League bigshot. And all of whom, as it happens, are African American. A black president, a black governor and a black mayor all agree with a black Harvard professor that he was racially profiled by a white-Latino-black police team, headed by a cop who teaches courses in how to avoid racial profiling. The boundless elasticity of such endemic racism suggests that the "post-racial America" will be living with blowhard grievance-mongers like professor Gates unto the end of time.
I was told that it would quit when we elected "Teh One". They lied. Again.
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2009 13:19 Comments ||
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It sounds to me like Gates and all his powerful friends are angry that the lowly cop got 'uppity.'
#4
They want to pretend they're striking back against oppression while they simultaneously take advantage of their priveliged status against a working class cop.
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I, for one, am grateful to all participants in this dust up and it's blabbering aftermath. Finally, we are getting a reality check on the bigotted, hateful statements that have passed from the lips of blacks unchallenged in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. What the professor said, in light of his actual circumstances, was strongly counter to his own self interest. The president, mayor, governor and many others responded with knee jerk non-thinkisms. Instead of affirmations or acquiesence they are being met with critical review.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
07/25/2009 14:37 Comments ||
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of course, if you have a critical review, it's because you're a raaaacciisssttt!!11!!
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2009 14:53 Comments ||
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Gates is the only one not backing off. Looks like he gets a PBS series and a lot of publicity out of it. Maybe a book. He's now in full 'reasonable' mode - you can just imagine his friendly smile:
Jordan is absolutely correct: my unfortunate experience will only have a larger meaning if we can all use this to diminish racial profiling and to enhance fairness and equity in the criminal justice system for poor people and for people of color.
And to that end, I look forward to studying the history of racial profiling in a new documentary for PBS. I told the President that my principal regret was that all of the attention paid to his deeply supportive remarks during his press conference had distracted attention from his health care initiative. I am pleased that he, too, is eager to use my experience as a teaching moment, and if meeting Sgt. [James] Crowley for a beer with the President will further that end, then I would be happy to oblige.
After all, I first proposed that Sgt. Crowley and I meet as early as last Monday. If my experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying. Because, in the end, this is not about me at all; it is about the creation of a society in which 'equal justice before law' is a lived reality."
Somehow I don't think Officer Crowley will be allowed to teach his class anymore, now that an expert has pronounced on his lack of capability.
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all it takes for Gates is for an audio tape of full-on McKinney-like craaaaaazy, and he's screwed too. I expect the police/union have a copy for ready-release
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2009 16:32 Comments ||
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Well, I don't have too imagine the smirk anymore.
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#21 Yeah, Now that they've been caught with their pants down, I think pretty soon we're gonna hear that old refrain from Professor Skippy, and President Barry, and Governor Deval and "Reverend" Al..."Can't we just...move on?"
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