we are proud as a wallaby to have our name attached to the
lefty letter to the
national press club decrying the imbalance of a panel discussion about blogging which includes jeff "mandate" gannon, but not anybody who actually
was involved in the
blogging investigation of him.
however, as glenn kenny points out in romenesko's letter section...hey, it's just a stupid panel:
as sympathetic as i am in theory to
steve gilliard's concerns about the makeup of an upcoming national press club panel on blogging, i can't help feeling that the whole thing's not really worth all the breast-beating. the thing is, it's just one stupid panel. (at a prestigious venue, granted.) the bigger issues are all going to come out in the wash. despite the fact that jeff guckert is capable of "taking notes" and "writing reports" he still has the intellectual apparatus and prose style of an only moderately precocious fifth-grader. the over-excitable mickey kaus reads like isaiah berlin next to this guy. as for wonkette, well, ana marie cox's slow slide from an antic muse to a telegenic smirk (and proud of it!) has been dispiriting to witness, but in time, a la the cheshire cat, nothing's going to be left except said smirk, and all the ass-fucking jokes in the world won't change that. so don't sweat over an hour or two of blather at some "club," mr. gilliard. the wheat will either be separated from the chaff, or the chaff will get tina brown's sunday night spot on cnbc, or msnbc, or wherever it is.
we couldn't have been snarkier ourselves!
yeah, ok, we used "breaking" in the title just to get your attention, but also because we wanted to make a point about people who used "breaking" in their titles, but felt that a diary named "breaking! don't use 'breaking' in your titles!" would be even more irritating.
so call the diary police on us, we don't care. come and get us, coppers, we're top of the world, ma! top of the world!