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Kos, Blogging, and the Election
By Matt Margolis | November 25, 2004
Brian Reich examines The Daily Kos’s role in the election, and Radio Free Blogistan says he “is completely off” on one particular point…
Also via Radio Free Blogistan, I found this CBS article which looks down upon bloggers…
Big plans and big claims are to be expected from folks – pajama-clad or not – who are dabbling with new technology and new modalities of public expression. As a retired mainstream media (”MSM”) journalist – and thus a double-dinosaur — I don’t begrudge these knights of the blog-table their grandiose dreams. But I worked on a school paper when I was a kid and I owned a CB radio when I lived in Texas. And what I saw in the blogosphere on Nov. 2 was more reminiscent of that school paper or a “Breaker, breaker 19″ gabfest on CB than anything approaching journalism.
The article then mentions a few “blogs” - which for some reason he included Drudge, which is hardly a blog in my opinion, as well as a short but telling list of virtually all liberal blogs. No mention of Powerline, Little Green Footballs, or even Blogs For Bush…
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November 25th, 2004 at 10:01 pm
Ah yes, remember the Journalism majors in college? They were the ones afraid to take on a real major.
December 2nd, 2004 at 1:45 pm
I’ve tried to listen to Air America, in the spirit of keeping an open mind, being willing to hear the other side, etc. Any my experience has been exactly the same as the author’s take on the left blogs. I hear a lot of hysterical giggling, shrieks of laughter at every sophomoroic (sophomoronic) “witticism”, lots of name-calling, indications that the most bizarre and derogatory combination of words is considered the height of political commentary (”psuedo-Christian blow-monkey White House puppet” stuck in my mind, in spite of efforts to cleanse it) and general adolescent foolery posing as political wisdom. The only thing I learned from trying to monitor the left was that if their spokespersons truly represented the Democratic Party, a Dem win would turn the country over to the equivalent of a high school clique based on put-downs and spite.
I have to say that I never, ever, NOT ONE TIME, heard or read anything approaching a rational discussion on liberal politics, the liberal positions on how to handle terrorism or the economy or illegal immigration or anything at all. All I ever heard, and all I ever saw on the left blogs I visited, was spite, malice, venom, hate, and a painfully immature attitude toward humor, roughly analogous to thinking “doody” is the height of sophisticated humor.
Maybe we need some new labels. “SLOGs” for the silly liberal blogs, and something else for the blogs that really say something.