The perils of parallelism
The LA Times published a mewling, stupid, jealous column about blogs. It specifically trash-talked John Josh Marshall, who has done some incredibly important original reporting -- Attorneygate really started there. And the author of the anti-blog screed admits he did not write about TPM, but that he signed off when an editor inserted a few specifics (because apparently, his screed against the shoddy unsupported work of bloggers lacked them).
"I said I did not refer to you in the original. Your name was inserted late by an editor who perhaps thought I needed to cite more examples ... "
Well. I guess that settles that.
There are bad bloggers and there are good ones. There are bad journalists and there are...
Never mind.
Update: And if Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, David Broder is US Weekly for ugly people.
"I said I did not refer to you in the original. Your name was inserted late by an editor who perhaps thought I needed to cite more examples ... "
Well. I guess that settles that.
There are bad bloggers and there are good ones. There are bad journalists and there are...
Never mind.
Update: And if Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, David Broder is US Weekly for ugly people.
posted by bluememe at 8/20/2007
4 Comments:
I think you might have meant Josh Marshall, rather than John.
Oops... right you are, Randy.
Apparently the original target was MarKos alone. I guessed that before even reading the article.
Funny how these "news" people want to shut others up.
89374etc., etc., You are so right about that. That must come from being a government sanctioned 'steno writer'.
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