Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Oct 5, 2010 at 9:41pm
Breitbart strikes again!
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Jul '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Jobs that Americans won't do.
So glad to see them come out of the shadows.
Jun '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Senador...no señora....
May '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
You write that "Breitbart strikes again."
A better way to put it is that a Breitbart site is publishing reporting that is thinly sourced, possibly true, and possibly false.
Were I willing to publish anything that a citizen journalist sends me, I'd have as many big scoops as Andrew Breitbart, as would a lot of my fellow reporters. As it stands, I have a lot fewer scoops... and a lot fewer Shirley Sherrods and James O'Keefes on my conscience.
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Fantastic! God bless Andrew Breitbart, the Right's own Happy Warrior.
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Conor Friedersdorf: You write that "Breitbart strikes again."
A better way to put it is that a Breitbart site is publishing reporting that is thinly sourced, possibly true, and possibly false.
Were I willing to publish anything that a citizen journalist sends me, I'd have as many big scoops as Andrew Breitbart, as would a lot of my fellow reporters. As it stands, I have a lot fewer scoops... and a lot fewer Shirley Sherrods and James O'Keefes on my conscience. · Oct 5 at 10:59pm
I grant your point to a certain extent. The problem is that professional journalists hold such low credibility with the American public, that they aren't trusted to report the big scoops, especially if those scoops conflict with their ideological agenda.
Despite the risks you take publishing material that could be false -- which, I'd like to point out happens with professional journalists too (e.g. Rathergate) -- I think citizen journalists are an invaluable resource in the age of the cell phone video camera, and they help provide a check on both the professional media and government.
May '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Diane,
I agree that there is tremendous value in citizen journalists, whether it's guys like the Powerline bloggers during Rathergate or any random person with a cell phone camera. Pro publishers shouldn't turn their noses up at them. What Andrew Breitbart does isn't to scour the Internet for the most credible citizen journalism he can find -- it's to search far and wide for material that serves as ammunition in his various ideological campaigns.
Barbara Boxer is awful. I wish Mickey Kaus would've beat her in the primaries, and I hope that Carley Fiorina wins in November. I'd love to break a story about how her campaign is paying people to be at her rallies. The video posted here is insufficient to prove that. And if the MSM published the same allegation w/r/t a Tea Party candidate, on the same thin evidence, Breitbart would be the first one to express outrage.
I have a particularly hard time regarding him as a trustworthy source given his track record -- see The Drudge Report, Juan Carlos Vera, and the Shirley Sherrod episode, for starters. If he were as responsible as you are I'd worry less.
Sep '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Breitbart is an admitted partisan whose mission is to push back against what he sees as an irresponsible media culture that is more interested in fostering a narrative rather than objective reporting. Anyone who reads his stuff knows this going in. What he does in no more irresponsible than countless instances of "mainstream" media malfeasance. The Shirley Sherrod incident was distorted out of proportion to what Andrew intended and the administration fired her without doing their own due diligence. I would venture to say that if Breitbart is just an indiscriminate hack that the reaction to him would be much more dismissive.
Jul '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Talk about work Americans won't do.
The American msm -- so lazy and incurious compared to their British counterparts, not to mention utterly compromised -- is unable anymore even to do the shoe leather work that once was an essential element of the trade. This citizen journalist approached a crowd and asked a few questions. Today's msm would accept the handout from the SEIU or the Boxer campaign, use a paragraph or sound byte from it, add a little bit of standard JournoList boilerplate and -- presto! -- another example of "objective journalism."
Sep '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
And what might we expect to see at the polling places on election day...
"Excuse me, sir. Did you say your name is Mrs. Nussbaum?"
"Si, si! The lady out front gave me the name from the obituary. Said I will get $20 after I vote."
May '10
Re: Boxer Hires Immigrant Day Laborers to Protest Fiorina
Conor, I agree that JC Vera is an apparent problem. The others are not. O'Keefe has gone nuts now, but his early work was a lot more than OK, especially compared with the doofuses at the NYT or CBS. Regarding veracity of the story, every set of "help wanted" ads for years has advertised for "activists" to go support lefty politics on a paid basis.
But you do have to admire Sen. Boxer. Most public officials don't care about constituents. She is so concerned about unemployment in California that she is hiring everyone herself. As long as (as with Streisand's maid or Pelosi's winery) they don't join a union, expect to earn the minimum wage, or receive health benefits