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Hey, that guy commented on Pererro, maybe. I’m instinctually very suspicious of someone with any sort commenting on the Pere, but you never know. But anyway, happy with the sentiments laid out here.

Also, the graphics are astonishingly weak for an operation that isn’t run off some lone stranger’s laptop. Or is it? Actually, it’s weak even if it is run off some lone stranger’s laptop. Most people using Blogspot as their platform have better looking sites. I’m kind of astounded that they went to all of this hoopla and this bit of blah is what’s on offer.

As I’ve said, sadly, about BushCo, the key players behind Open Pajamas (Mavis’ TM) have sunk to the depths of EVEN DISAPPOINTING A CARPING, SKEPTICAL, DON’T-GIVE-A-DAMN-ABOUT-YOU-OR-YOUR-MAMA, HATE-YOUR-FUCKING-RIGHTWING-POLITICS SHIT LIKE ME. That’s a very bad beginning.

I thought Marc was hanging out with his good buddy, William Shakespeare.

Is this Silver guy sucking in his stomach for the pix ? Sure looks like it.

You can imagine the pictures of us two!

I think Murdoch does use parts of his global media enterprise in clearly direct and political ways, such as his use of the Sun newspaper in the UK. But its not uniform across the board. But when he wants to he can and does – and that’s the point.

Contrast that to the set up of the UK’s Guardian newspaper. It’s still corporate, but a different structure.

I did not inform you about who its financiers were. We are not told in detail. I did not mention them by name. I simply said I suspected they were not from the liberal left.

He who pays the piper calls the tune… to an extent. It depends how much slack they want to give, and what sort of proprietor or group of people own the media enterprise. But ownership is about power too, and that makes a difference.

Don’t get too stressed about it. I am not here to have big argument with you about it.

In fact, if you look at the material that has ben put up on OSM the first few days, the tilt was actually center-center/left with prominent pieces by me, David Corn and links to KoS and TPM among other liberal sites.

The he who pays the piper formula is about as primitive and boneheaded as you can be when it comes to media. I trash the very corporate LA Times all day and night publicly and still write for them on a regular basis. I worked at the Village Voice and did whatever I wanted when RUPERT MURDOCH owned it.

The danger that OSM is flirting with right now is from a LACK OF CONTENT. Not from a surfeit of rightwing material.

Anyway, this is an exhausting and fruitless discussion because it is driven purely by ideology and not reality. It’s the same sickness the Bush White House suffers but clearly with no monopoly.

As to the picture… yes.. they are THAT tall and I am THAT short.. about 5′ 3″. Arianna tops out at 6 feet.

Anyway, as regards OSM, it is a right wing project. Simply peruse the 70 OSM blogs, check the make up of the Editoral Advisory Board (you and David Corn excepted), check the blogs of its founders, and note that Corn was the lone liberal at the OSM launch. And where is the $3.5 million from? Not from the liberal left sources I suspect. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

But it looks even clearer now the people behind it are right wingers without business sense, a clear plan. It’s not a train wreck yet, but its heading rapidly in that direction, as predicted.

To avoid that they need to rapidly complete a big shake up, including changing their name which is misleading, to put it mildly.

But in one sense OSM is inclusive and bi-partisan; anybody stumbling across the OSM website today – be they from the left, right or centre – will find the thing an embarrassment.