Comments on: The New York Times on Moldova: Twits, Not Tweets http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:26:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kabud http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-249927 kabud Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:04:45 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-249927 Romania has become the second former Soviet bloc country, after Russia, to revive the KGB slogan “America-is-the-enemy.” In 1978.. Romania had one major intelligence service: the Securitate, staffed with ca. 16,000 operations officers. Now it has six (SRI, SIE, UM 0962, STS, SPP, DGIA), which have absorbed most of the former Securitate officers and its modus operandi. According to the Romanian media, these six ghosts of communism are bloated with 30,000 officers. The SRI (domestic counterintelligence) alone, covering 22 million people, has ca. 12,000 officers. Its French equivalent, the DST, covering a population three times as large, has 6,000. Its German counterpart, the BfV, which covers 82 million people, has only 2,448 officers. If the United States were to apply this Romanian ratio to its population, the FBI would have ca. 190,000 agents, not the 12,156 it has today. Older Romanians still put a finger to their lips to signify the potential presence of hidden microphones. No wonder over 2 million people have left the country since communism collapsed. http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7B3333A7-DE30-400E-8051-2B8AF0E3CE8E Romania has become the second former Soviet bloc country, after Russia, to revive the KGB slogan “America-is-the-enemy.”

In 1978.. Romania had one major intelligence service: the Securitate, staffed with ca. 16,000 operations officers. Now it has six (SRI, SIE, UM 0962, STS, SPP, DGIA), which have absorbed most of the former Securitate officers and its modus operandi. According to the Romanian media, these six ghosts of communism are bloated with 30,000 officers.

The SRI (domestic counterintelligence) alone, covering 22 million people, has ca. 12,000 officers. Its French equivalent, the DST, covering a population three times as large, has 6,000. Its German counterpart, the BfV, which covers 82 million people, has only 2,448 officers.

If the United States were to apply this Romanian ratio to its population, the FBI would have ca. 190,000 agents, not the 12,156 it has today.

Older Romanians still put a finger to their lips to signify the potential presence of hidden microphones. No wonder over 2 million people have left the country since communism collapsed.

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7B3333A7-DE30-400E-8051-2B8AF0E3CE8E

]]> By: Marsha http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-249289 Marsha Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:31:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-249289 NY Times is still around? Why? NY Times is still around? Why?

]]> By: deguello http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-249236 deguello Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:43:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-249236 Tne NYSLIMES :Twits and Twats using Twitter,to write twaddle for nitwits! Tne NYSLIMES :Twits and Twats using Twitter,to write twaddle for nitwits!

]]> By: Class Clown http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-249065 Class Clown Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:24:14 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-249065 Watching the New York Times flounder makes my heart go all a Twitter.... Watching the New York Times flounder makes my heart go all a Twitter….

]]> By: Yaakov Watkins http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-249064 Yaakov Watkins Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:20:28 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-249064 Same with most news sources. They don't respond to anything they don't like. I remember when I sent snail mail to them 12 years ago asking how they verified news stories. No response. Same with most news sources. They don’t respond to anything they don’t like. I remember when I sent snail mail to them 12 years ago asking how they verified news stories. No response.

]]> By: HalifaxCB http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-248984 HalifaxCB Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:03:59 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-248984 JasonS @5 - I think it's simpler. I know a couple of "name" reporters, and the one overarching trait they have in common is the need to be seen as "cool". Yeah, it looks stupid on folks nearing retirement age, but it seems to be prerequisite for MSM flunkies. JasonS @5 – I think it’s simpler. I know a couple of “name” reporters, and the one overarching trait they have in common is the need to be seen as “cool”. Yeah, it looks stupid on folks nearing retirement age, but it seems to be prerequisite for MSM flunkies.

]]> By: JasonS http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-248711 JasonS Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:22:17 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-248711 To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter is paying news outlets like the NY Times to promote them. I say this because it seems like there are a suspiciously large number of Twitter mentions in the media of late - it's as if journalists are finding all kinds of questionable excuses to shoehorn the Twitter name into their articles. Hey, the NY Times is headed for the swill bucket ain't they? Might as well try and reel in as much advertising revenue as they can. To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if Twitter is paying news outlets like the NY Times to promote them. I say this because it seems like there are a suspiciously large number of Twitter mentions in the media of late – it’s as if journalists are finding all kinds of questionable excuses to shoehorn the Twitter name into their articles.

Hey, the NY Times is headed for the swill bucket ain’t they? Might as well try and reel in as much advertising revenue as they can.

]]> By: Floyd Looney http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-248561 Floyd Looney Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:23:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-248561 Where do the lies end? I guess they don't. Where do the lies end?

I guess they don’t.

]]> By: gnubi http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-248522 gnubi Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:05:58 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-248522 NYT is in a bad spot. Unreliable and slanted reporting leads to declining circulation leads to desperate and sensationalistic reporting leads to more distrust leads to declining circulation. Death spiral. The market has a natural "fairness doctrine." NYT is in a bad spot. Unreliable and slanted reporting leads to declining circulation leads to desperate and sensationalistic reporting leads to more distrust leads to declining circulation. Death spiral. The market has a natural “fairness doctrine.”

]]> By: HalifaxCB http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-new-york-times-on-moldova-twits-not-tweets/#comment-248460 HalifaxCB Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:21:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=54005#comment-248460 "All the news that is fit to print" now should probably read "Any news we can find (since we don't have the money or reputation to hire real reporters) plus any conceivable fantasy to fit the gaping holes left by the fact no one wants to advertise with us any more". Plus maybe a statue out front of the iconic Times reporter, Jason Blair ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair ), the exemplar of NYT journalism ethics... “All the news that is fit to print” now should probably read “Any news we can find (since we don’t have the money or reputation to hire real reporters) plus any conceivable fantasy to fit the gaping holes left by the fact no one wants to advertise with us any more”.

Plus maybe a statue out front of the iconic Times reporter, Jason Blair ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair ), the exemplar of NYT journalism ethics…

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