Glass blogs

Glass blogs

: I hate it when I think of the right answer after the TV lights are off. Last night on Capitol Report, John Hinderaker went on about how The New York Times is a front for the Kerry campaign and then said the difference between him as a blogger and big media is that he gets his facts right. He repeated it again. And what I should have said is: John, don’t make the same mistake The Times — and 60 Minutes and the rest of big media — make, acting as if you get everything right, putting yourself up on a pedestal. For it’s a mighty steep fall off it.

5 responses to “Glass blogs”

  1. Mumblix Grumph Avatar
    Mumblix Grumph

    They call that “staircase wit”. Thinking of the right answer too late; the perfect, usually piercing, riposte that you conceive only when replaying a verbal exchange later in your head
    from the French l’esprit d’escalier, the witty repartee you thought of as you’re going downstairs to leave.

  2. too many steves Avatar
    too many steves

    “I know just how it feels to think of the right thing to say too late.”
    -Robert Frost

  3. Dishman Avatar

    Or, perhaps what he should have said was, “We correct ourselves when we get it wrong.”

  4. Lee Avatar

    right, Dishman. because Powerline posted the early October “WMD found” (CNS) news story that was NOT correct. Powerline didn’t fact check or source check: within minutes of CNS’ “report,” Powerline reposted it. See:
    http://powerlineblog.com/archives/008063.php
    Most amazing part of that post is: “The government official who gave the documents to CNS says he thinks it unlikely that the Bush administration is even aware of their existence, given the large volume of intelligence-related documents waiting to be translated.”
    that made me feel so much better about American intelligence. . . :\
    CNS (right-of-center) has never been considered a credible news source. See:
    http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000930.php
    (a left-of-center source)
    Credibility is endangered if we base our decisions about credibility in a soruce’s confirmation of our own biases, or, worse, our wishes abotu what woudl *be* true. It’s what concerns us about NYT, but it should cocnern us with all MS *and* the blogosphere.