“Clinton offered a grim take on mainstream media when asked by VeriSign CEO Mark McLaughlin about his favorite websites. In response, he ticked off several political sites, including Politico, The Daily Beast and Huffington Post, as well as a few ‘right wing ones’ to get both sides of the political debate. But Clinton said that many of the political sites ‘don’t have to do what a newspaper does every day,’ which is why he is ‘really worried about our ability to maintain any newspapers’ or anything that ‘serves as a standard of objectivity,'” Thibodeau reports. “‘It’s almost impossible given the economics of the modern world for newspapers to continue…,’ said Clinton.”
Thibodeau reports, “Asked by VeriSign CEO Mark McLaughlin what his favourite device is, Clinton named the iPhone, ‘because I can get so much stuff on it.'”
Full article here.
Oh boy, can’t wait to see how many pages of posts this article gets!!
Right,
Like no one was going to mention that his favorite device was a Lewinsky. “Get a lot of stuff on it…”
I’ll give him another term!
‘because I can get so much stuff on it.”
Hmmm
Commie in the White House.
There you go. That should do the trick.
“Because I can get so much stuff on it…
…like Penthouse.com, Hustler.com, and the same stuff I got on Monica’s dress – and elsewhere, if ya catch my drift!” (chuckles, then bites lip).”
Nothing like baiting the political whacks. Thanks MDN!
That I’d rather have Clinton in office today than the unprepared empty suit we’re stuck with for the next 1040 days, 13 hours, 15 minutes, and 55 seconds, proves that absolutely anything is possible (except wanting Carter back).
Wings2Sky – I’ve got my popcorn and drink and am ready for the show to begin.
Peace.
Why do you idiots get into politics…. Why not stick to the Mac News… That’s what this site is aboutbyou idiots.
There’s a ho for that.
As far as newspapers are concerned, at some (tipping…breaking?) point it will become obvious that good coverage has to be paid for.
The ones that can weather the shakedown and keep a profitable business model may find that they are left in a pretty good position.
They will need to become more online and closer to a TV newscast with links, or the TV newscast will jump in that boat and do more online print stories. Either way, I don’t think that news gathering will become a thing of the past, just the way it is distributed. However, if the current papers are not quicker to change, then someone else will move in and take their territory.
Massachusetts Treasurer: Dems healthcare plan will bankrupt the country in four years:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1240176
In related news, Venezuela president Hugo Chávez launched the Vergatorio phone in May 2009. Vergatorio means penis. I’m not joking.
Bill Clinton will be the first in line for the Vergatorio phone…
@Blast.. do they have a bent model?
@ Towertone…. uhhhhhh what?
Don’t you all think it’s just surreal that MDN is running a “BLOW-OUT SPECIAL” ad right next to an article on Clinton?
{perverted bevis and butthead laugh… heh heh, heh heh heh}
The iPhone does NOT suck…..but Lewinsky did, it seems.
I almost wish I hadnt posted this…….
I thought it was a cigar.
Mr. Clinton is right. As an example, the only technology journalists you can truly rely on for fair objectivity is “Thurrott, Enderle or Dvorak”. These three are the bastion of tech journalistic integrity.
Naa… Lurker_PC & Wings2Sky
From 11:28 for the first post and 1:22 to the latest and we’re still on the first MDN page.
This story isn’t going anywhere fast!
Put away the drinks and pop corn and get back to work!
@Reese Brackett
“Why do you idiots get into politics…. Why not stick to the Mac News(?)”
Because this stuff gets hits.
It was smart and appropriate for MDN NOT to offer an opinion.
As for the newspaper I work for (I’m a photographer, not a writer) we will survive, and so will our online content if I can get them to break their addiction to flash.
Of course he has an iPhone, Steve Jobs supported him. To you right wing guys: hmm.. Steve Jobs is a democrat, once even thought about becoming a candidate – and he produces in communist-China – why do you buy his communist computers? If the liberals are so evil, why do you use their computer system?!
@ FXQ
I guess all computers are communist, so are TVs and most clothes.
@Giles
So the commies are successful with business?? Strange. I thought those hippie liberals like Steve Jobs can’t get anything done. Why not the Harvard-Balmer/Gates-Machine? They seem to be much more conservative and serious…
Because Bill knows a good thing when he sees it.
Funny though, SJ may be a liberal, but he sure runs Apple like am ultra conservative.
Yeah, sorry for the analysis, Jim.
-Bill Clinton’s favorite gadget? Hillary said it was the paper sack he gave her on their honeymoon….
Wonder if clintons iPhone is jail broken or not?
I think we all need to remember Al Gore and his accomplishments… like the invention of the internet.
OK, had to say it.
“I think we all need to remember Al Gore and his accomplishments… like the invention of the internet.”
Yeah, and he invented the iPhone, too. Just ask him. He’ll tell ya’ Go on…
FXQ wrote: “So the commies are successful with business?? Strange. I thought those hippie liberals like Steve Jobs can’t get anything done. Why not the Harvard-Balmer/Gates-Machine? They seem to be much more conservative and serious…”
Bill Gates: $53 billion
Steve Ballmer: $14.5 billion
Total: $67.5 billion
Steve Jobs: $5.5 billion
Difference: $62 billion
There are and have been a dwindling number of objective news outlets even in the newspaper world. The medium is not the issue but rather the polarization of the country.
On both sides of the aisle we are far too comfortable supporting those who take our political positions to the extreme. They are the most vocal, vigilant, and generate the most controversy which generates the most sales and hits at a time when traditional media as a whole is fighting for survival and are following the money at all costs.
Too bad there is not more demand for thorough and objective coverage of the issues at hand. If there were, we as a nation may be able to make better choices as a whole instead of enacting changes that serve only selective agendas. Most Americans views are somewhere in the middle and we are being torn apart by radicals and labels that serve no greater good.
Think about where you click, what you read, and what media outlets you support as it in a way is voting on a daily basis for the temperament of debate in our great country.
As someone who is not an 100% Apple fanboy and thus unable to see through the hate. May I note that said Bill Gates etc, have done the Gates foundation which has given more money to charity than Steve Jobs has ever earned.
Not to mention more money to charity than probably every republican has ever earned.
So sorry SB, Bill Gates is anything but conservative, as evident by his TED talks etc.
@FXQ: “Why not the Harvard-Balmer/Gates-Machine? They seem to be much more conservative and serious…”
Harvard?! Yeah, that’s a bastion of “Conservative thought” when it comes to higher education!
Bill Gates has given “more money to charity than probably every republican has ever earned?”
Are you serious? If so, you’re horribly misguided and wrong.
Republicans give a bigger share of their incomes to charity than Democrats. Conservatives give about 30% more than so-called “caring” Liberals.
That would be “caring” in name only. Typical Democrat: Lots of words, very little action beyond spending other people’s money.
Conservatives are also 18% more likely to donate blood. The difference is not about politics, but about the different way conservatives and liberals view government.
“You find that people who believe it’s the government’s job to make incomes more equal, are far less likely to give their money away,” Arthur Brooks, the author of “Who Really Cares, says. In fact, people who disagree with the statement, “The government has a basic responsibility to take care of the people who can’t take care of themselves,” are 27% more likely to give to charity.
More myth busting here: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&page=1
Can’t wait until 2010 midterms!
@Towertone
He actually had two sacks…he kept one on his head in case her’s fell off.
Wow! Lots of anger still about Clinton and his sex life. Not as much disgust with the Billions in surplus because of his governing which was summarily squandered by the “giving” next administration. Yeah, lets keep government out of our lives and let the free market prevail. While your at it, let’s bring back child labor. You’d be surprised how much of a margin is in that. Then we could give some of it to charity and justify everything!
A little history.
The person who gave Bill Clinton his first computer lessons informed me that Clinton doesn’t get it.
Has anyone noticed that Steve Jobs is not a donor to the Clinton Foundation? It could have something to do with the Clintons sucking up to John Sculley right after the 1992 election. Sculley eventually got fired from Apple due to his distractions with the Clintons. Vinod Gupta can probably relate to that.
The final point is that Bill Clinton got impeached thanks to a Mac computer. Thank you, Mac computer.
In general I am disappointed. I was hyper-excited to see the headline because it is so easy to turn this into jokes….but they are just dribbling through like a bad case of inflamed prostate.
I guess we are getting lame in our old age.
@Former Suburban Independent
An old republican myth, propagated through the likes of conservative blogs and their little hate wikis in order to self pat themselves. Next time you try to compare charities, how about you include a statistical sample with some big liberal cities & more than 10 people in it?
And all the collectivist mob voting of creationists and evangelical middle-eastern wanna bes won’t change that.
Move over cigar!!! Billy Boy’s got an iPhone!
@He-who-catapults-zebras
Here’s a stat.
When Obama’s charity was disclosed and I was shocked that I gave more than the Obama’s to charity.
Proof to me (cuz I know and saw the facts) that Obama is another liberal that does not give much.
The “old republican myth” is real easy to believe especially when you see and know the numbers.
Of course Republicans give more to charity than Democrats. They’re trying to buy atonement.
OK, if you hate the Clintons,you will love this site
http://arkancide.com/
and inversely if you love them blah blah blah
Go suck a vergatorio Giles…
Time for me to sell iPhone. Here I thought his favorite device was a cigar.
For the love of God, this certainly brought out the shrieking banshees. Including the crazies who think Clinton killed people. Unbelievable.
“As far as newspapers are concerned, at some (tipping…breaking?) point it will become obvious that good coverage has to be paid for.”
You mean like the Washington Post’s Pulitzer-winning expose on Walter Reed, or the Las Vegas Sun’s public service reporting on large numbers of construction worker deaths at building sites, or the St. Petersburg Times’ Pulitzer for its PolitiFact.com work, or any number of prize-winning and/or public service newspaper articles?
Most people would consider those things to be “good coverage.” They weren’t behind a “pay wall.”
this only went 1 page?
I think Bill Clinton loves the iPhone because of the iCigar app in the iTunes store….
It works in conjunction with his iPaula, iKathleen, iMonica, etc apps..