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1. 1 On January 26th, 2024, jeneane said:

   Infucking Credible!

2. 2 On January 26th, 2024, Seth Finkelstein said:

   I’m not sure there’d be much of a story here.

   Perhaps the publisher sent a bunch over as promos, nominally “reviewer copies”.

   Why would that be a scandal? Except perhaps an appearance of favoritism, but that hardly seems much.

3. 3 On January 26th, 2024, fp said:

   The truth is often simple, even mundane. But for me there are some people who do not deserve a place at the table. Hewitt is one of these. So the Hewitt apologist who promotes his work will receive low marks from me.

   Also, a simple answer to my serious question is all I am looking for:

   “How did the work of Hugh Hewitt find its way into the Blogging, Journalism, and Credibilty” meetings?”

   I have a hard time dragging an analogy forth… I’d like to ask “Would a similar give-away from been accepted and made available?” Matt Drudge? Father Coughlin? I can’t come up with a fair analogy. But if the work was provided by a sponsor or a participant, and was not some aimless marketing over-the-transom spaghetti toss that stuck to the wall, then that would tell me more about the person or organization who provided it.

4. 4 On January 26th, 2024, memer said:

   Even with low marks in the offing, I’ll risk asking another question (I could never hope to ‘pass’ in this esteemed class of bloggers anyway): Why does this matter? Honestly, I don’t see why this would be any more irksome than having to drive past a McDonalds’ after having seen “Supersize Me.” Isn’t it just reg’lar, plain ol cheesy marketing incidental to the point of the show?

   Not like I’m any apologist — just askin, presumptuously, on behalf of the jus’ plain folk.

5. 5 On January 27th, 2024, fp said:

   It’s black and white memer. No shades of gray. Go read Hewitt’s blog.

6. 6 On January 27th, 2024, mememomi said:

   Ah. Gotcha now. I think I see the concern. Hm, yes, it’s disturbing his blogs-as-end-around-msm (it’s LIBERAL, don’tchaknow) schtick. We should be wary, cuz, y’know, consider the (right-biased) source and all that. But for some reason (ignorance, hubris, complacency, naievete?) I still can’t get too worked up about this.

   I mean, his is a hymnbook that appeals only to certain, very specific choirs. Innit? What is there to fear?

7. 7 On January 27th, 2024, fp said:

   Fear is far from the landscape. Encountering bullshit, great windmill shaped piles of bullshit, is my mission.

   As it turns out, John Hinderaker - a friend of Hewitt - helped make it happen. Rebecca MacKinnon says that in retrospect they probably shouldn’t have distributed it. By helping to surface the issues and catalyze that reflection I believe that I can safely say (much as Sergeant Preston of the Yukon used to say to his lead sled dog King): “Well, Rocinante… this case is closed.”

   http://www.rocinante.com/why_rocinante.html

8. 8 On January 27th, 2024, memer said:

   well done windmill chaser, now tally ho
   for the shit still flies as the wind blows
   hold firm your lance,
   and only after dance
   charge leading the light — shishkebab them hos!

9. 9 On January 28th, 2024, Dean Landsman said:

   All of this leads us to an important question: Is Hewitt Journalism? Is Journalism Hewitt? Is Hewitt’s Blog a journalistic ploy?

   Obviously the answer to all of the above is this:

   “Hey, kids, let’s put on a conference!”

   “My dad’s got a barn!”

   “Fuck your dad’s barn — let’s do it at a bigname university!”

   And then they begin a blog, ask if barns are journalism, and why don’t major universities offer a major in blogging, a sub, maybe, of their journalism schools?

   That’s a barnburner, eh?

   Ya think maybe this Hewitt is related to the 60 Minutes honcho?

   All the world’s a blog . . .

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