Not getting it
I’m told the blogosphere is going to eat our lunch. Well, the blogosphere, for the most part, spends its infinitely expanding gas talking about what we – newspapers – write, not what some blogger reported. If newspapers disappeared tomorrow it would be like pulling the fuel rods from a nuclear reactor: the lights would go out and the blogosphere wouldn’t produce a single BTU of intellectual heat.
Listen up, Sparky:
The significance of blogs is not that they break news. It’s that they criticize the news and opine on the news. See, years ago, some journalist could print the talking points of some activist group, display obvious bias, or mislead readers and the only thing that would happen would be a few folks might send a letter to the editor that would probably not get printed. Now, you guys have to kinda watch out for that. That’s the point. Like R. Neal said about blogs: it’s letters to the editor without the letters or the editor.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
it’s letters to the editor without the letters or the editor.
Pretty profound, as is your post.
Sparky not only is an arrogant elitist, he’s kind of slow, too.
March 29th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Sounds like a death throttle to me… Sour grapes.
March 29th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
People still read newspapers?
March 29th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Let ’em go. We’d still have the wire services. Online.