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The frequency with which journalists poke fun at bloggers is a measure of journalists' insecurity about their own skills and/or industrial future. Recall Boston Globe columnist Hiawatha Bray, who had the temerity in early 2002 to declare that "blogging is an ephemeral fad, destined to burn itself out in a year or two." Bray later became a blogger and, in 2004, was shredded by not-yet-extinct bloggers for his perceived abuses of blogging culture.
Read this interesting item here.
Among other things, we find out that one journalist asserts that 94 percent of "political bloggers" had never been out of the country or read anything other than a Harry Potter book. Nice piece of journalism, that. It was a joke, of course, but many bloggers did not get it. Bloggers can be so literal minded.
In truth, according to the Blog Reader Project, the readers of blogs tend to be well traveled and they read a lot of other stuff too. We are still not too sure about the bloggerz themselvzes.
Comments
Why if truth be told we all seek to be as stupid as Prezznit Bush, or well at least as much as those who took the troll bait ;)
Posted by: Doug Alder | December 16, 2008 1:20 AM
Bloggers stoopit? Heavens, I know that I am, at least a good part of the time. It's the constant struggle not to be that makes blogging interesting and fun.
Posted by: george.w | December 16, 2008 8:14 AM
hum, I'z stoopidz? Because I writz? In a Blog? LOL!
Seriously, while I haven't been to all of the world yet (particularly Asia) I wouldn't call myself untraveled. And as to reading, I wonder how many of the "journalists" have, as part of their Sunday reading, Spanish copies of El Pais and ABC? Granted they are hard to find, but I manage at least once a month or so. But I'm not well read or anything.
Posted by: Philip H. | December 16, 2008 9:33 AM
One of the signs of intelligence is recognizing your limitations, and not being too offended when someone points them out to you.
Posted by: Joel | December 16, 2008 10:11 AM
Joel: Yea, but first it helps to also know when you are getting hit with satire.
Posted by: Greg Laden | December 16, 2008 10:18 AM