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Re: Friday, September 17, 2004
Hahaha, this is where I fall back laughing. All over the mainstream media -- hardly partisan at that, so you can’t play those cards -- decrying CBS here, forgery been long established. Some of the noteables include: NYT, ABC, NBC, CNN, Wash. Post, Chicago Trib, WSJ, Scotsman, BBC, with all document experts backing off from supporting CBS, with all the key players, telling a very different story than the picture CBS has tried to paint. And then you refer all matters to someone who doesn’t “know a damned thing about it” and only spent “23 minutes” researching it. Plainly obvious that blogs had some impact and had serious subject matter experts on the case, even the major media is having to admit it. Finally, blogs get their real due, and all the usual blogger suspects are left defending the indefensible or off in la-la-dreamy-land thinking it is a grand Karl Rove conspiracy. Egads. Moment in the sun, and a cop-out with “I'm busy doing my job, which isn't blogging”, and ‘we-don't-need-no-stinkin'-content-we-are-free-range-writers’. In case you haven’t figured out by now, content is a hook, endless conversations can be noise. No need for “choirs of voices raised in righteous rage against political enemies?” Oh yeah, well what about Trent Lott and the Dean run-up? Talk about righteous rage. And what about Linux vs. Microsoft or IE vs. Firefox? Righteous rage with extra-helpings piled on there. And what about corporations that only communicate via flacks and do not engage in a “human voice conversation”? You wrote a whole BOOK in righteous rage language against such corporate political enemies. And I thought the Cluetrain mantra was that “choirs of voices” matter over a single voice. Recall this one? “We want you to take 50 million of us as seriously as you take one reporter from The Wall Street Journal.” I am not playing the political cards here, just I find it rather interesting, that the first real bite for blogs, and the “Old Guard” is nowhere to be found. Birds of a feather, blog together. Peace, Love and Understanding and a new World of Overhyped Blog Power, but only if you think like us, share the same political views and use same software and follow our commonly accepted conventions and blogroll link-whore to us; any other issue, matters little -- group-think at work. Anyone on a differing page is a “troll” or part of some vast hidden-conspiracy, Microsoft, Public Relations professionals, Right-Wing'ers, Corporate interests, or whatever the bogeyman of the moment is. Truly amazing, all over in formerly skeptical journalism circles, it’s a new day, blogs mean something -- and none of the ‘self-appointed’ or ‘Cluetrainers’ are rising to the challenge. Irony abounds.
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