What could be more objective than a chart that plots major websites on a horizontal axis of scurrility-earnestness, and a vertical one of opinion-news?
One conservative site, Instapundit, squeaks into the intersection of the news/earnest quadrant.
(h/t Hot Air headlines)
So FireDogLake and Crooks and Liars are more “news” and “earnest” than Instapundit? Good, Lord, what universe do these people live in?
(Oh, and nice of them to forcibly resize my browser window. Asshats.)
– So then, you maybe were expecting the SecProggs to say they are demagoguing partisan hacks, who can’t present a word of news without spinning it to cover their lying propaganda. Sure. Thats going to happen.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:earnest&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
In that sense FDL is light years more earnest than Insty.
Not surprisinly, it gave me a Father’s Day headache.
But, scurrility is a gteay word!
Ummm…
…great…?
I dunno…”gteay” sounds kinda scurrilous. I’d stick with it.
That might be interesting if “Earnest” and “Scurrilous” were on the same spectrum.
Plus, it’s got Media Matters on the News/Earnest axis. David Brock?
The Dems always said that dissention is the highest form of patriotism, so I’m sure Obamessiah will not mind any of it.
That last item belongs elsewhere…
In that sense FDL is light years more earnest than Insty.
I will give them earnest, its the news thing that made me blow coffee out my nose.
No, no really. When I think of “earnest news,” I think of Jane Hamsher.
The blackface thing was news, wasn’t it?
Do you mean ‘news’ as in commenting on it or ‘news’ as becoming the subject of it? If the latter then FDL falls under ‘news’.
To be scrupulously fair, NewsBusters is in the earnest news quad as well, to balance MediaMatters.
I hope everyone checks the descriptions in the rollovers. My fave is the reference to Excitable Andy’s “clear eyed political commentary.” Y’know, like the “airing” of the Alex Jones stuff.
Thanks, Karl. Missed that one.
Of course, Insty does not consider himself conservative, so there’s really only one conservative site in that quad.
Yeah, but then, as you´ve noted, Teh Moderate Voice &ct.
Hey, whadda ya want from a NT fag mag?
Sorry – was that scurrilous?
Karl-
My fave is the reference to Excitable Andy’s “clear eyed political commentary.â€Â
I think mine is “Duncan Black… interacting with a huge number of prolific commenters.”
OPEN THREAD!
– FDL and “news”. Maybe if you definition of “news” is fantasizing amd delusional echo-chamber sycophant cheering. I especially enjoyed the “How we beat Lieberman like a drum” series of Hamsher and her fellow barking moonbats. That there was some “earnest” bullshit, it was.
What is this ‘Wonkette’ (wittiest political blog around) crap?
Can you go there for sugartits?
“Can you go there for sugartits?
– I don’t believe so. Ann-Marie was an “ass” girl, all the way.
So all those left wing site more closely resemble a Jim Varney movie than right wing sites? I’ll go with that.
Anyone who expected differently from Vanity Fair isn’t thinking.
So where does PW fit on that grid? To the Left of Little Green Footballs I am thinking.
If the bats that flew out of your ass were cold, I’d be worried.