Stating the obvious:
[Q] - To make his point, Murdoch criticized the media reaction
after bloggers debunked a “60 Minutes” report by former CBS anchor,
Dan Rather, that President Bush had evaded service during his days in
the National Guard.
“Far from celebrating this citizen journalism, the establishment
media reacted defensively. During an appearance on Fox News, a CBS
executive attacked the bloggers in a statement that will go down in
the annals of arrogance. ‘60 Minutes,’ he said, was a professional
organization with ‘multiple layers of checks and balances.’ By
contrast, he dismissed the blogger as ‘a guy sitting in his living
room in his pajamas writing.’ But eventually it was the guys sitting
in their pajamas who forced Mr. Rather and his producer to resign.
”Mr. Rather and his defenders are not alone,“ he continued. ”A
recent American study reported that many editors and reporters simply
do not trust their readers to make good decisions. Let’s be clear
about what this means. This is a polite way of saying that these
editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for
themselves.“ -
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10098194-60.html
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