AmSpec: Blogs lead to intellectual sloppiness
posted at 9:43 am on May 24, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Quin Hillyer makes the case. “Blogs can be fun, entertaining, and informative,” he grants, “but they don’t lend themselves to disciplined thought, much less disciplined writing.”
Elsewhere in the world of disciplined thought, here’s an op-ed column in today’s AmSpec citing a news story that was debunked five days ago.
Doesn’t AmSpec have someone at the top — an executive editor, say — to help make sure such undisciplined nonsense doesn’t make it into the publication? Why, yes! Yes it does.
In fairness to Hillyer, he does get off a few good lines. E.g.,
On blogs, anything and everything goes, including on the blog names themselves: What the heck, for instance, is “Echidne of the Snakes” or “Nyarlathotep’s Miscellany”?
Speaking of discipline, Jon Henke imposes the severest kind on Atrios.
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Okay, so there is less discipline – so be it. It’d rather have that and weird Blog names than Dan Rather’s News and ostentatious op-ed columns. I would also rather have the blog environment to get Major News stories and even post opinions than waste my time writing op-ed pieces to the Washington Post that never get posted because I have a conservative opinion.
He is obviously stating that the Blogsphere is different from other outlets like Tv news media and established new websites – like his own.
PRAVDA in the Old Soviet Union said that they had a mission and a political slant. Dan Rather on the other hand, said that if the Bush military service story was true, then that is “the story that [he] wants to break”. Point being — It’s the same thing – a waste of my time.
But in the end I see what this guy is after (see below). He states it clearly. He wants traffic to his website and advertising dollars ($$$$$). What a disgrace that I even went to his site.
“Meanwhile, if they or you must enter the Internet world, you can’t go wrong with The American Spectator’s website (which itself has a blog). It’s the best website, with lots of stuff about horrible screaming monkeys, God and the universe, and even pizza, albeit without old tires or whipped cream. Fafblog, eat your heart out.”
What a clown
ar_basin on May 24, 2006 at 1:37 PM
I find it a tad bit “Holier Than Thou” for people involved in major writing outlets to dump on those who blog. I have found more engaging ideas at HotAir than I have in most newspapers in the last year. And I’m not even a conservative!
Blogs bring us all together. Sure, I’d rather not sift through pages and pages of idiocy on MySpace, etc. But it’s undeniable that blogs are a good thing. gOoD wRiTing oR NoT.
TheThink on May 24, 2006 at 4:02 PM
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