Weblogs Make Newspapers Boring
This is a bit off topic of late, but I thought it was an interesting viewpoint on the power of weblogs in the whole media picture. From the comments section of Matt Welch's site:
Mike G: I will just say that since I started reading blogs so obsessively my newspaper has become nearly useless. Anything that's in it I knew days ago, any commentary seems desperately stale, full of tired unexamined ideas (NATO is threatened by this war! Well, since it's certainly not threatened by the USSR any more, who gives a flying F?) and arguments that I've already read deconstructed 500 times (according to last Sunday's Chicago Tribune, this war may increase Muslim resentment of the US). It has much less to do with my wanting a particular ideological stripe than with the fact that the paper is just dumbed down and kind of boring.
Mike G: I will just say that since I started reading blogs so obsessively my newspaper has become nearly useless. Anything that's in it I knew days ago, any commentary seems desperately stale, full of tired unexamined ideas (NATO is threatened by this war! Well, since it's certainly not threatened by the USSR any more, who gives a flying F?) and arguments that I've already read deconstructed 500 times (according to last Sunday's Chicago Tribune, this war may increase Muslim resentment of the US). It has much less to do with my wanting a particular ideological stripe than with the fact that the paper is just dumbed down and kind of boring.
# | March 24, 2003