tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post953362729660725682..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: McArdle v. TruthSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-36256101540239232132009-03-14T13:17:00.000-05:002009-03-14T13:17:00.000-05:00Will she try to wiggle out of it? WIll she come up...Will she try to wiggle out of it? WIll she come up with countless explanations? Will she just ignore the whole situation?<BR/><BR/>Megan's more fun than a barrel of monkeys.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-84691076562792896742009-03-14T12:49:00.000-05:002009-03-14T12:49:00.000-05:00If Megan had the slightest understanding as to wha...If Megan had the slightest understanding as to what "journalistic standards" even meant, you'd think she'd employ them from time to time. That post is a new low in dumb, even from her standards. Did she really admonish what is blatantly a satirical "news" show for not providing professional journalism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50346481689812894902009-03-14T12:48:00.000-05:002009-03-14T12:48:00.000-05:00MikeG--I should do another post on that, because y...MikeG--I should do another post on that, because you're right. I only addressed whether Stewart should be held to journalistic standards. Of course I adore what he and Colbert do; political humor is what I'm trying to do too. <BR/><BR/>Chad--Good point. And they both are meticulous in trying to soften and manipulate the consequences of their wrong statements. <BR/><BR/>ChicagoEd--Yes, she's going to believe the father-figure authority and she's going to seek alliance with the elite also. Everything reinforces everything else.<BR/><BR/>Julia Gray--It's like reading McArdle, incredibly annoying yet so revealing. They don't just want money, they want the thrill of watching the stock market go up constantly. They want more and more and more. It's no wonder the financial mess is so severe. Nobody was holding the elite back and their greed has no end.<BR/><BR/>How is this so? These people revere the idea of strict, unchanging moral standards and rigid conformity. They should be afraid to be so nakedly greedy and out of control. Yet somehow the American public gave them permission to indulge without limit. I could blame the prosperity gospel of megachurches, but there's a lot more to it than that.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-33998430674669363192009-03-14T10:01:00.000-05:002009-03-14T10:01:00.000-05:00The problem, of course, is that "the talk Megan Mc...The problem, of course, is that "the talk Megan McArdle is hearing" is limited by the people she deigns to talk to (or who deign to talk to HER). <BR/><BR/>It's the same problem all establishment media has these days. They are too invested in having "access" to the big boys to criticize them in any way, shape or form.<BR/><BR/>I, too, used to watch a ton of CNBC, mostly <I>Squawk Box</I> with that endlessly annoying frat boy Joe Kernen. Sometimes you can read between the lines of what they're saying, so it was occasionally mildly useful, but more as a NEGATIVE indicator than anything else. <BR/><BR/>It was clear to me even then that they asked CEOs slightly challenging questions ONLY when it had become obvious that a firm was in trouble, and the trouble was <I>already</I> reflected in the current market for the company's stock. The interview was only meant to give the CEO an opportunity to make plausible excuses and possibly halt its decline.<BR/><BR/>I eventually recognized the entire enterprise to be kabuki, and I hated Kernen so much that after a while I couldn't even watch it to know what NOT to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-12379552671477968242009-03-14T08:49:00.000-05:002009-03-14T08:49:00.000-05:00Of course Megan will stick up for the CNBC folks w...Of course Megan will stick up for the CNBC folks who simply regurgitate what CEOs and Wall Street hacks tell them without fact checking anything before their "reports" are aired. Because Megan does a very similar thing. She's always writing about what she "hears" and what anonymous "economists" tell her over the phone or what someone emailed to her. <BR/><BR/>It's really very patriarchal and fits in with MM's authoritarian tendencies. You see, there are people at the highest end of society--CEOs, economists, traders, etc.--who have incredible knowledge due to their superior standing in life. If Megan can cozy up to them and get them to talk to her, then she has a story to post on her blog like this: "The talk I'm hearing is that..." But she never fact-checks anything or does anything to factually substantiate what she's posting. Then--the arrogance--she acts as if she's doing her readers a favor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4025177972668818442009-03-14T01:59:00.000-05:002009-03-14T01:59:00.000-05:00Megan's disingenuous idiocy aside, I don't think y...Megan's disingenuous idiocy aside, I don't think you are giving Stewart enough credit in terms of what he does beyond the yucks. In my opinion, he (and Colbert) are some of the best, if not the best serious media criticism going these days. Their texts and often very subtle subtexts are often very complex and trenchant critiques of the processes and practices of media (and politics) at this particular moment. And that they are blindingly funny (indeed much of what they do could only be done through humor) is really just a massive bonus in my book.MikeGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16695202399894827221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-15249383426087415532009-03-13T22:30:00.000-05:002009-03-13T22:30:00.000-05:00Megan really ought to have enough sense to leave t...Megan really ought to have enough sense to leave targets like Jon Stewart and Glenn Greenwald alone. In terms of talent and intellect it's like seeing Luxembourg declare war on Russia.<BR/><BR/>And it's funny how Megan echoed Cramer's own pathetic excuses by crying "context!" (especially given that Stewart and his team actually did go out of their way to thoroughly rebut that particular claim). Mediocre minds think alike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com