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Online vs. Offline

kc — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:56:26 -0700

I think the ability to link to source documents is one of the things that makes online journalism so much better. But there is an institutional inertia that comes into play here, with reporters and editors used to doing things the old print way, and not seeing how important this is. In my column from two weeks ago on oil drilling, I made sure to attach the two main documents I used for sources. I need to do this more often.

KC's recent (July 15th) column in the Vail Daily

Anonymous blogette — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:18:53 -0700

I read Kirk's column in the Vail Daily on July 15th.
re: Death of Objective Journalism...

Although clearly 'right of center' those people over at the EagleCountyTimes.Com
seem to be the only ones doing any 'open records requests' to validate their point in their little online Eagle County newspaper. I've read 2 articles - one on the County's Human Society then next on Commissioner Peter Runyon being sued because of concerns with Runyon using taxpayer funded TV to 'enhance' his re-election campaign. Both articles had clickable links to the PDF's of their open records requests...

Y doesn't the Vail Daily, Vail Mountaineer and the left leaning realvail.com do more of that kind of journalism?

With open records laid out, the reader can make his or her own mind...

..just a thought to get us back to credible journalism...

Would you mind pointing out some of those?

kc — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:58:14 -0700

I think we're all aware of Kerry's "for it before he was against it" flip flop. But that doesn't meet your definition, which is to take a position, switch it, and then switch it again. I think that would be called a flip-flop-flip. Do you have any examples of these?

Flip-flops

Marti — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:39:52 -0700

Olbermann shows no McCain "flip-flops" at all. To flip-flop means to take position A, then B, then A again (then, maybe, B again). For a vast reference of true flip-flops, look up John Kerry in 2004.

Missing the point

kc — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:58:51 -0700

Thanks for the comment. No one is saying that we should just turn off our oil wells or stop drilling. As I state in the article, the oil companies already have under lease 68 million acres of federal land with the potential to produce six times the oil as ANWR. but they aren't drilling on those lands. If we find another way to fuel our cars, then the U.S. will have more than enough oil for plastics and other products without importing one drop.

BTW, my keyboard is metal, not plastic.

Missing the point

Andrew — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:10:25 -0700

No one knows how much oil is down there. They just know where it is. Environmentalists have tried to have it both ways. If there is so little oil, then what damage can it do to dig for it? If there is lots of it, how can they now oppose it by claiming there is not enough. If you expect alternative energy sources to help, think again. Oil is used for far many more products than gasoline. The article you wrote was typed up with a plastic keyboard, which is made of oil. When you break from your computer to get something to drink, chances are, it is in a plastic bottle.

Sure

kc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:31:24 -0700

As it is stated in the column, Rep. Dennis Kucinich is the person who sponsored these articles of impeachment, and it was covered widely by most major media outlets. Try Googling "Kucinich impeachment." Of course, the House will not be acting on these articles, which is the whole reason for the column. You can find these articles on Kuninich's website here:

http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=93581

Dear Mr. Caraway, i am a

H. Coverly — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:19:28 -0700

Dear Mr. Caraway,
i am a history student at a university in South Carolina.
i am woking here for the summer and taking a class entitled Americna Consitutional History. I came accross your article in the Free Press
opinion page entitled "Bush wrongdoing and Democratic complicity needs to be exposed".
In your article, you claim that the House brought 35 charges against Bush, and i was wanting
to do a little research of my own on that very issue as i have not heard anything from the news about this impeachment.
I was hoping you might be able to divulge you sources on this issue.
thanks
h.c.

You're right

Desert Beacon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:53:43 -0700

I once tried to keep a list of the positions on which McCain's flip flopped and I frankly couldn't keep up. The changes were so frequent and the positions so fluctuating that it proved impossible to track even on a daily basis. This man is giving "spin" entirely new connotations!

Forget about Iran

Rasterbator — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:28:52 -0700

I wondering why to focus so much on the iran issue. It is better if they pay more attention on the oil price.