Those Crazy Blogs!

You get the feeling that Tim Russert and friends view blogs as wacky kids stuff, right up there with piercings and X-Boxes. And notice how Roger Simon of U.S. News & World Report snorts at the label, his site is written not just typed, you see.

Kinda like a bunch of guys on TV thinking not just talking.

Comments

[Kevin Carson]

I think blogdom is just recreating the golden age of journalism: the partisan press of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

The way to get at truth is not insipid pseudo-objectivity (writing your stories around officially generated quotes, and balancing them with quotes from spokesmen on "both sides"). The way to do it is through the adversarial process: making the best possible case you can for the truth the way you see it, and then letting your ideological opponents cross-examine your evidence and logic relentlessly.

[beerzie boy]

Tee-hee! Good one!

[joe]

I saw that. F*cking snobs. Loved the comment about "push away the Burger King wrappers."

They think you're Comic Book Guy.

[ed]

Yes, but:

MR. BRODER: "...I think it?s a tremendous tool, and it?s part of what is the healthiest trend in our politics, which is going back to personal communication, away from the mass media?forgive me, NBC. But I think the healthiest thing that?s going on now is people talking to people..."

[Comic Book Guy]

Last morning's Meet the Press was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. Rest assured I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.

[rst]

forgive me, NBC. But I think the healthiest thing that?s going on now is people talking to people...

Precisely the nature of the opposition. People getting their own news and permeating their own commentary runs contrary to the mission of news channels. When they want your opinion, they'll give it to you.

[Will Spencer]

"MR. BRODER: Well, I am not and I never have blogged, and I?m going to get to the end of my career without blogging. I think..."

Maybe sooner than he plans...

The technological shift towards many-to-many communications poses a threat to the continuing employment of these luddite one-to-many talking heads.