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Re: Side Note Beth's site is down
Dave, No I don't think what Andrew said was harmless. His "get a producer" line was a direct assault on all online writers, not just Beth. (Recast it, if you take it out of his metaphor context what he was saying was "Leave writing to the professionals", was he not?) No, if he wants to criticize Beth's writing skills or whatever that's fine, but he comes off as rather elitist by ending the column this way, IMHO. As far as comparing the ripping you, and others, get online, you've also got to consider that you give it pretty good too. I don't recall Beth ever really ripping anyone else's blog or their writing. I can expect, that when I criticise other people on my blog that they'll be right there to give it back, and that holds true whether you're male or female, but it's always been sort of "beyond the pale" to rip people who aren't making any attempt to criticize others and are just writing about their own lives and interests. But that's really a side issue, I wouldn't care if Andrew wanted to rip Beth's writing, I'd probably let that stand on it's own, but I commented about it because I felt like he was using Beth to take a shot at all bloggers. If he doesn't like weblogs, he should come out and say that, not take shots at one and then use metaphors to get at what really bothers him. There are responses to this message:
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