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In Defense of The Blog 2

Here's a little more footage from the Bissinger - Leitch exchange. Again, your thoughts are appreciated. Post 'em if you got 'em.

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Re: In Defense of The Blog 2
since what i do is cut and paste other people's shit -- here's a really good graph from the Fire Joe Morgan piece you cited:
The argument I had tried to make in the pre-taped segment was: you can't say anything about "blogs," any more than you can say anything about any medium. There are good blogs and bad blogs. There are blogs that cover the personal lives of athletes, ones that cover only the games, ones that offer opinions, and even a few that quixotically and foolishly attempt to metacriticize the media as a whole. What Bissinger did that was so annoying to me was: he lumped all of these into one thing ("Deadspin," essentially), then took one article from one day and read it aloud from a file that looked suspiciously like it'd come from Joe McCarthy's safe, and read one sentence from it aloud. And furthermore, he seemed to conflate the actual blog and the people who write for it with the silly comments people make at the bottom of every article.

by Kid Nate on May 1, 2008 5:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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