Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Drudge and his following are the Lomographers of the news. I prefer the Leica way of dealing with the news: experience, culture, the 'decisive moment' as holy grail, work and the optical quality needed to describe the truth as precisely as possible... B. D. Colen wrote: > > > The Drudge Report at http://www.drudgereport.com This is a > > professional news source...nothing fancy just hard news. > > > > > > You may not like what your read, but at least you will know that it's > > the truth. > > > Whoever wrote this was on lots of VERY heavy drugs. The so-called Drudge > report is nothing but a juvenile gossip column on the web, where anyone can > write anything. Yes, Drudge "scooped" the media by reporting that Newsweek > was about to scoop the media on Monica Lewinsky. And he has had one or two > other insider "scoops" in a year. He has also run endless reams of entirely > made up crap that reads as though it was lifted from the old National > Lampoon - I know it wasn't lifted, it just reads that way. > > What is truly pathetic about the media, and the present general > sophistication level of the American populace, is that Matt Drduge, internet > goofball, is considered a "journalist" and appears on "serious" t.v. shows. > The fact that he has his own t.v. show means nothing - after all,so does the > World Wide Wrestling federation! > > B. D.