The official conservative narrative on Beauchamp had suddenly turned on a dime and left me behind….

Doesn’t that say it all?

“Daniel Rubin @ Philly Blog reminds me that I’ve been calling Jeff Jarvis who is the creator of Entertainment Weekly an old fishwife for bitching about OSM so much, whilst appearing confused. O.K. it isn’t only David Burge who needs to get his proverbial foot out of his mouth. Jeff, hindsight gives you 20/20 and all that ‘jazz’….I have however had enough of grovelling for one day. I am usually quite polite…well I said usually, unless we talk about Islamofascism.”

May I apologize Jeff, being rude just doesn’t sit well with me in the final analysis. Like good wine my thoughts sometimes simply don’t travel well.

Not cool, not cool at all.

Pajamas Media finally took the sheet off their new name this week and became Open Source Media, which they describe as “a new blogging venture designed to bring together the internet’s brightest minds and most compelling content into a single…

Feeling ever so slighted.

What you said. I keep looking at LGF because I just can’t believe anyone would say the kinds of things people there say. It’s given me a whole new perspective on my fellow citizens. And they are so proud of themselves! Now that France is burning, they’re positively thrilled to have the opportunity to rag on both the French and Muslims.

Re LGF vs Kos, the likes of Citibank, BMW, Amex etc won’t be caught dead advertising on either site.

Thoughtful analysis, thibaud, but I’ll have to be contrarian on that point: the goal of blog advertising shouldn’t be about attracting super major sponsors like Citibank, Amex, etc, anyway.

They aren’t the best advertisers on the web, anyway. The most dependable advertisers are companies with a year-round interest in attracting eyes to their own websites.

My comic network’s primary sponsor, for instance, is a web services provider. Regular advertisers include web hosts, dating services, online games, and other sites like ours.

The best advertisers for blog sites will be web hosts, informational/news sites, online magazines, etc. Those advertisers are already there, but a network can maximize the power of a group of less-influential sites.

It should also be noted that many advertisers don’t *care* about the politics of websites, apart from demographics that impact on sales of their product or service. A left wing site will want to advertise on Kos and not on LGF, but a company that offers web hosting couldn’t care less… and activists should reign in their tendency of accusing such advertisers of “supporting” this or that site. It’s stupid and anti-democratic. I think it also tends to leave people with a worse impression of the bullies pushing the issue than the target.

I was reminded about all this simply by visiting my own site this morning, and finding embedded liberal reporters on my home page. I don’t care much for the NYT; but what do I care if they attract more readers from people visiting my own site and sites like mine? More power to them. In any case, the only reason I have this ad on my page is because of my powerful network, since I probably couldn’t sell adspace to a slug, myself.

“I don’t think the MSM has much to fear from Johnson and his ilk.”

Tell that to Dan Rather.

OTOH, Pajamas Media could well turn out to be an extraordinary political fund-raising machine for certain center-right candidates. Perhaps it will be the center of the Draft Condi for President movement in 2007.

As to LGF, if the intention were to highlight cases of muslim hatred, hate crimes, forked-tongue public officials, etc, that function’s well covered, and infinitely more professionally, by MEMRI.org. In any case corporate America is utterly terrified of being accused of racism, from any quarter, so its hard to imagine which major corporations outside of maybe privately-held Coors would even consider advertising on LGF.

An even bigger problem for LGF and Kos is that, unlike the flamers on talk radio, the bloggers are vulnerable due to the idiocy and vileness seeping from many of their commenters. Limbaugh, Michael Savage et al don’t have to worry about this, beyond keeping tight control on the abort button for callers.

If you were a betting person, who do you think is going to win the WOT, the U.S. and our allies or 7th century religious thugs? And if you were, again, a betting person, who do you think is going to prevail on a global scale in the war of political ideologies: socialists/Marxists/leftists/the MSM or free market capitalists/democracies?

PJ is a group of influencial bloggers which also includes ‘their ilk/readers/commenters who *will* provide a formidable voice that the MSM should recognize, adopt and disseminate in terms of fair and balanced reporting. If, however, the MSM continues on it’s current suicidal propaganda approach, it does so only in aid of its own accelerated, dinosaurial demise.

THAT is the point of PJMedia, in my view. Ad bucks be damned!; that is Not the reason for their collaboration.

A few little issues like survival are at stake. I’ll take my chances with Charles over Ariana and her so-called expert ’stars’ any day.

[Questions: why does my above comment keep getting bumped down the line after other comments which didn't exist before I last posted? And also, why does the program tell me to 'slow down, cowboy and not post every 15 seconds'? My last comment was actually entered over an hour ago.]

Aharharhar. More head in the sand wishful thinking. Amen to both your comments, Carsonfire.

Iron Fist’s Cat should be so lucky as to attain that status. He/she is apparently afraid the cat’s being let out of the bag about Islam. Deal with it, IFC. The world is getting appropriately educated, with or without Western leftist/MSM efforts to pretend it is the Religion of Peace.

Charles Johnson ‘and his ilk’ are doing a superb job of covering news that doesn’t happen to fit into the dying dinosaur, MSM’s game plan. Smart advertisers will flock there to reach the hundreds of thousands of daily LGF readers. Anyone who can garner literally THOUSANDS of comments on any one thread is getting it right. And I suspect the PJ crew, a fine collection of bloggers, will soon represent a force to be reckoned with by the MSM. None too soon. Smart advertisers take notice: the majority of the country is represented by LGF, NOT Kos. If I wished to advertise, I know where I’d put my money.

The little engine that could.

I wonder if they considered and then ruled out the name “Pajamahedin?”

The pictures are of a beggar and a silly, dangerous and abusive stunt involving a boy having his arm “run over” by a truck.

I don’t think the MSM has much to fear from Johnson and his ilk.

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