The Mainstream Media Pisses Off the Blogosphere, Again
There’s a firestorm a-brewin’ over a Wall Street Journal piece that apparently – at least according to old school and (love ‘em or hate ‘em) A List bloggers such as Robert Scoble and Mike Arrington – gets the history of blogging completely wrong.
Note to the mainstream media: probably makes sense to at least check in with some of the blogosphere’s important figures to at the least create some balance in the reportage. It doesn’t have to be Scoble or Arrington; I’ve no doubt there are countless well respected and long time bloggers out there who would be delighted to give their own personal take about an often ill defined craft.
Scoble pulls the trigger on the obvious but nonetheless stinging rebuttal:
I thought mainstream journalists were supposed to get it right and leave the inaccuracies and all that to us bloggers.
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July 18th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Boy Tom Wolfe is cranky
July 18th, 2007 at 9:01 am
I met Wolfe several years ago, interesting guy and fabulous writer.
July 18th, 2007 at 9:48 am
how did you meet him? great writer no doubt.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:13 am
At a book reading. We chatted for a few minutes, and I got to ask him about one of my geeky literary fascinations: that the very same character Dean Moriary from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road shows up in the flesh as real person Neal Cassidy in The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.