I wrote an email to Miami Herald columnist Ana Menendez alerting her to the post I wrote at Herald Watch about her last column.
She responded with the following:
I don’t have time to read blogs, but thanks.
Of course not. Why would she want to read something that might criticize what she writes?
I sent her a pithy response of my own:
That’s Ok, I usually don’t have time to read the paper. Unless, of course, I find out someone is manipulating statistics to make bogus arguments.
I talked to her at Nostalgia last summer, and she gave me the impression that she felt like she was slumming. Her reply to you is exactly in character. What a condescending bitch.
Way to go Henry!
“I don’t have time to read blogs, but thanks.”
LOL!! Sure!! A otro perro con ese hueso!
I wish you well 🙂 Melek
“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ~ Sir Arthur C. Doyle
Of course, she does not read blogs, since blogs have become the watch dog of journalist since the media cover up of the LibbyGate. As a manner of fact, some blogs have access to the white house press conferences.
Power to te people!!!!
Tango
At the WeMedia Conference a few weeks ago, one of the more common themes, echoed by everyone, including the head honchos of the NYT, Time-Life and other MSM print media execs, was that the newspaper, as we know it, will only be around for possibly another five to ten years. Not only because of the internet, but because of the interactivity and flexibility of the internet.
So, it would behoove Ms. Menendez to start reading blogs as pretty soon thats the way everyone will be getting their daily news.
Ana “When I was a German Shepard” is a total sell-out. She’s one of those no-talent writers [think of that chick lit bitch from New Mexico] who is able to flourish because the liberal media and publishing establishment encourages and fosters writers who advance the agenda. How do you say cubana resentida y arrastrada in so many words?
Of course, she is a liar (and this is actually a matter of public record). You can be sure that she has been following Henry’s exposes with marked interest, since it means that someone has actually taken her seriously (and to task) for once. She is not, however, a cubana arrepentida, since in order to be that she would first have had to be a cubana in the first place. She is a product of Southern California and her ties to our community were nil before relocating to Miami as the token “Cuban-American” political columnist at The Miami Herald. [Someone, I don’t remember whom, once surveyed her geographical knowledge of Miami and concluded that she doesn’t know Miami from Mars]. This angelina’s entire reason for living is to prove how much better she is than her parents’ compatriots. As a writer, I have never read a worse one. And I am sure that she cannot read (and may not even speak) a word of Spanish. Well, maybe a couple of words.
And because of blogs, newspapers are going to become obsolete especially that rag of the Miami Herald
Hhmmm — do you REALLY believe she doesn’t read blogs? C’mon …., that was just a cheap shot in order to avoid any further exchange – or EXPOSURE.
I think she and her gophers devour them. Blogs provide fodder for her resentment and liberal anger, as she contemplates an early extinction when her modus vivendi goes the way of the horse and buggy.
On that day, I’ll lift my colada and drink to THAT!
I gonna disagree slightly with Val on the future of newspapers. The newspaper, as we know it, will probably disappear. No need to have a printed page when you can have the same info on your wireless device etc. But the news content the newpapers provide to people will still be provided and a lot of it will be provided by the same players such as AP, Reuters, NYT, WSJ, etc. etc.
The blogosphere and the internet is actually going to make these ventures more viable. We steer readers to these outlets every day. Bloggers don’t create much of the original news content (we can’t, we have day jobs, we don’t have reporters or bureaus) but we comment on the news content. It’s a symbiotic relationship.
Ms. Menendez is of course full of shit when she says she doesn’t read blogs. Either that or she is an even worse journalist than we all think she is. Journalists will still be able to report, the thing is that where I think they’ll lose “power” is in shaping opinion. A one-sided story, like the one that Ms. Menendez tries to sell in her column, will be obliterated by bloggers and the author’s agenda becomes obvious.
So the good journalists will understand that bloggers are going to actually scrutinize their work and write in such a manner that will avoid criticism of being biased or one-sided.
The thing is we are still in the infancy of this new relationship and there are always going to be hold-outs that want the old system to stay. People like Ms. Menendez who don’t like this change because it doesn’t suit them personally.
I gonna disagree slightly with Val on the future of newspapers. The newspaper, as we know it, will probably disappear. No need to have a printed page when you can have the same info on your wireless device etc. But the news content the newpapers provide to people will still be provided and a lot of it will be provided by the same players such as AP, Reuters, NYT, WSJ, etc. etc.
The blogosphere and the internet is actually going to make these ventures more viable. We steer readers to these outlets every day. Bloggers don’t create much of the original news content (we can’t, we have day jobs, we don’t have reporters or bureaus) but we comment on the news content. It’s a symbiotic relationship.
Ms. Menendez is of course full of shit when she says she doesn’t read blogs. Either that or she is an even worse journalist than we all think she is. Journalists will still be able to report, the thing is that where I think they’ll lose “power” is in shaping opinion. A one-sided story, like the one that Ms. Menendez tries to sell in her column, will be obliterated by bloggers and the author’s agenda becomes obvious.
So the good journalists will understand that bloggers are going to actually scrutinize their work and write in such a manner that will avoid criticism of being biased or one-sided.
The thing is we are still in the infancy of this new relationship and there are always going to be hold-outs that want the old system to stay. People like Ms. Menendez who don’t like this change because it doesn’t suit them personally.
Menendez is a very good fit for the Herald, a useful tool for their agenda. They get someone who’s technically Cuban to bash the exile community, and they get to play innocent bystander: “Well, WE didn’t say those things; SHE said it; it’s just HER opinion, and she’s CUBAN, you know.”
Still, I expect the real ruling class at the Herald looks down its definitely non-Hispanic nose at her as just some pushy little cubanita who may be useful, but will never be one of THEM. In any case, she’s pretty small potatoes, despite whatever pitiful delusions she may have to the contrary.
Henry,
i didnt mean to say that newspapers would go out of business, only the printed versions will become obsolete. However, given recent trends in the internet and media, the MSM is realizing that the public wants more interactive media sources. The public wants to participate in the process, thus, while of course journalists and reporters will obviously still be needed, in essense, with more public interaction with the new media sources, what we will be reading in the near future for news, will be an offshoot of today’s blogs.
Asombra,
I agree 100% with your assessment and Ray, yes she is more than a little Alisa-esque.
Asombra,
I agree 100% with your assessment and Ray, yes she is more than a little Alisa-esque.