Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
Nope. Lemur was nice enough to prove that theory wrong.
What?

You talk about Van Jones as well, you know, the fact that in this, in this media age, what he said, by anybody's estimation, was objectionable, to sign a petition saying the government was behind 9/11. But it goes to something that's going on in this information age...

Before this they were talking about obama giving a speech at a school. An unrelated subject.

They were talking about obama giving a speech at a school and then mentioned van jones and transitioned into a new subject.

Yeah, the guy just calls it 'an open sewer'. We all know that open sewers have lots of positive qualities too... right? The insipid, self-serving nature of their discussion just wowed me. Using Van Jones(a case in point of them completely dropping the ball and the "open sewer" succeeding where they failed) as a jumping off point was the icing on the cake.
You can pull the open sewer comment out as often as you like, but do you disagree with what he was saying or just the word choice?

MR. FRIEDMAN: You know, David, I just want to say one thing to pick up on Tom's point, which is the Internet is an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information, left, right, center, up, down, and requires that kind of filtering by anyone. And I always felt, you know, when modems first came out, when that was how we got connected to the Internet, that every modem sold in America should actually come with a warning from the surgeon general that would have said, "judgment not included," OK? That you have to upload the old-fashioned way. Church, synagogue, temple, mosque, teachers, schools, you know. And too often now people say, and we've all heard it, "But I read it on the Internet," as if that solves the bar bet, you know? And I'm afraid not.
In googling to find the transcript I went through the sean hannity forums and and angry ranting blogger



That's the whole point.
Pick a tv news show at random and pick a blog at random and which will be better? The tv news by leaps and bounds. Cherry picking one example of a failure by the msm says very little, however annoying you find their tone. And they don't "lament the free flow of information" and suggest that "all the news should be filtered through them", which you said originally. If I were to cherry pick an example of a failure of internet reporting