Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] In your heart you know Jim Brick is correct
From: Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:42:30 +0100

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.