Monday, June 01, 2009

Teddy and the Ruff Ryders

It crops up every now and then, this anti-blogging bias and when it comes to newspaper columnists and talking heads in general it seems to cut across party lines. It's kind of undefined but there's a real animus out there towards YOU the blogger, George Will resented YOU being chosen as its Person of the Year a few years back and most recently New York Post commentator Kyle Smith sees blogs as being so much vapor. Here's the way I see it, the average person can now voice opinions on a worldwide stage and I think that's wonderful, what's wrong with it? and to the trained opinion professionals like Will and Smith what makes you think we never get tired of reading you? yeah, I can't get enough of you talking heads. So gone are the days we only got to read newspaper columnists and whatever guests Tim Russert had on Meet the Press but WHY does it bother you guys so much?

4 comments:

  1. They don't like the competition of course.

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  2. Yeah, they hearken back to the good old days when we got to read only them, their wisdom, their political acumen, their sage advice. I was reading Maureen Callahan's diatribe against actress Winona Ryder in yesterday's NY Post, first off she said she couldn't act so she probably didn't see the remake of The Crucible and as for the rest of her piece I don't know what she was trying to say but she said it well.

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  3. Hey, what goes around comes around. Used to be that the talking heads would hear the politicians and then put their spin on things and tell us what they thought we should hear. Now, they do that and us bloggers pick up the slack and ADD OUR OWN SPIN to what THEY said. I guess the liberal press doesn't like having US give them poor ratings. TOUGH SHIT CRY BABIES!

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  4. Us bloggers picking up the slack. I can think of so many examples of bloggers picking up where the media left off, of telling us the rest of the story. In many cases blogging is a public service and they hate us for this.

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