Haven't seen anything on this particular article, so let me know if it's been diaried already. And I know this isn't much of a diary, but thought everyone should see the article sited.
Ever wish a Kossack diary would get published in a major newspaper? Wait no further......
Hat-tip to HuffingtonPost.com for the story! And another one to Armando, who wrote about this first and graciously has not demanded my resignation.
DOUG ELFMAN, television critic (!!?) for the
Chicago Sun-Times may be lurking at DKos. Judging by what he wrote in Sunday's Edition.
Doug hits the traditional media so hard, I feel like I'm sitting in the front row in Manila, 1975, looking up at Foreman being hammered on the ropes, getting sprayed with blood, sweat and spit! (Ew)
"Ouch" doesn't even cover it. He's also bold enough to reprint Stephen's ENTIRE routine transcript (in the newspaper!!!).
A "blogstorm" is thundering across liberal Web sites. Many liberals are furious at the White House press corps for virtually ignoring Stephen Colbert's keynote speech at the press corp's own White House Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday. To non-liberals, this may seem like an isolated complaint. To liberals, it further justifies their belief that the media, particularly TV news, is a big stinking cabal of conservatives.
Someone in the TM challenges the "Liberal bias" canard??? Ohhhhhhh, it gets better
Colbert's routine was more remarkable for its unique and creative brazenness. He joked that Bush's presidency is like the Hindenburg; that Bush's wiretappers were monitoring this very event, and that the White House press corps, sitting in front of Colbert, gave Bush a free pass, scandal after scandal, until recently (when his polls numbers dropped).
How's this for a newsworthy lead? It was perhaps the first time in Bush's tenure that the president was forced to sit and listen to any American cite the litany of criminal and corruption allegations that have piled up against his administration. And mouth-tense Bush and first lady Laura Bush fled as soon as possible afterward.
Okay, I'm giving a reward for the first person who identifies this obvious Kossack's nickname!! Seems he's the only person in the media who watched the same event we did. But this brave soul wouldn't dare mention the very name of our beloved site, would he?!??!
.......ignoring a newsworthy keynote speech -- at an event the press corps itself set up -- doesn't go unnoticed anymore. Internet stables for liberals, like the behemoth dailykos.com, began rumbling as soon as the correspondents' dinner was reported in the mainstream press, with scant word of Colbert's combustive address.
Yipes!!! He HAS been here (behemoth???)!! I've been reading this article as I write the diary, so I'm just as shocked as y'all!
We've all seen what Doug's saying in our very own diaries, so I'm finding it hard to think of anything to add. And what say you, Dougie, about the futures of the TM?
This is trouble for the media. It has been losing customers to bloggers and Web sites for years. This won't help. The media's implosion of silence could be one of the final reasons many liberals use to not turn on TV news. It's not like they feel a vested interest in the industry anyway, since it has been bought and parceled by conservatives.
Krikey!!!!! WTF?!? Truth in print? Who'd a thunk?
To liberals, this must be somewhat puzzling, since the rest of the conservative media primarily sides with a president whose approval ratings stand at 32 percent, a whisker better than Nixon's before he resigned in disgrace.
Make that 29% bucko.
You simply MUST read the entire article. It is a joy to behold!
UPDATE: 5-9-06 10:01AM
Go here HERE to give the Sun-Times some Kos-love (thanks Cowalker!). Also, if DKos is really an "Internet Stable" I say we need some PONIES!!