tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11098524.post150338298182030423..comments2007-10-02T17:12:47.077ZComments on The Democrat's Diary: The liberal media: valuable platform or figleaf fo...David Wearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10533245823534996616noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11098524.post-73819487228148524852007-10-02T17:12:00.000Z2007-10-02T17:12:00.000ZYes, I agree with all that you say here. I accept ...Yes, I agree with all that you say here. I accept that an independent media outlet would find it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to compete with the msm in terms of readership (although I'd like to see more use being made of the internet - imagine a site where all the big names (Fisk, Chomsky, Monbiot, etc.) wrote and contributed original pieces. I'm sure that with a bit of publicity it JamieSWhttp://heathlander.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11098524.post-4268212844769779642007-10-02T11:21:00.000Z2007-10-02T11:21:00.000ZThanks for this, Jamie. You raise a good point her...Thanks for this, Jamie. You raise a good point here, I think.<BR/><BR/>I certainly don't assume that the corporate press will inevitably and always have a massively larger readership than any independent publication. I don't intend for it to come across that way. I'm simply recognising the realities of the here and now. <BR/><BR/>I have to say that even given the biggest possible effort we could David Wearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10533245823534996616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11098524.post-25001763295587186582007-10-01T22:46:00.000Z2007-10-01T22:46:00.000ZCommunism & its Subversion of the West did not sto...Communism & its Subversion of the West did not stop when the Berlin Wall Fell.<BR/>http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865<BR/>http://thewestminsternews.co.uk/<BR/>http://www.betteroffout.co.uk/sup01.htm<BR/>http://www.betteroffout.co.uk<BR/>http://www.brugesgroup.com/<BR/>www.eutruth.org.uk<BR/>http://www.european-referendum.org.uk/101-reasons.html<BR/>http://www.proreferendumrally.co.uk/<BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11098524.post-7149920219633573372007-09-30T17:07:00.000Z2007-09-30T17:07:00.000ZHi David,First let me just say that I'm agreement ...Hi David,<BR/><BR/>First let me just say that I'm agreement with your argument here - it's silly to dismiss the advantages of working within the corporate press as if they didn't exist. Of course there's the "fig leaf" effect, but this must be balanced against the fact that far fewer people would be exposed to the analyses of Fisk, Monbiot, etc. if they handed in their resignations from the JamieSWhttp://heathlander.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com