Al Martinez feels the heat
Posted by Moonage on 10 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Opinions
Al Martinez decided to get something off his chest. Now, Al’s not your ordinary newspaper hack, he’s a hack for the LA Times. I’m not sure exactly what set him off, but here’s some of what he had to say about blogs:
- When I first heard the term, I thought it defined a loathsome place of brackish water and quicksand where little children and lost drunks were swallowed up in the gooey mess, never to be heard of again.
- Since then I have learned that, with some notable exceptions, blogs are largely the habitat of unemployed writers, enraged misanthropes, retired teachers, aging journalists and people who normally pass their time doodling or making obscene telephone calls.
- A blogger occupies a website from which comments emerge in various forms to clutter cyberspace with his or her opinions on politics, war, movies, sex, music, medicine, health, aerobics, food, marriage, animals €¦ and, well, just about everything. No subject is too lofty or too inane for the blogger.
- The computer allows one to do just that in a sense, to hurl messages at us whether we want them or not. And once in a while, they’re hurled at me. ( Looks like he learned well. )
Thanks ( I guess? ) to Independent Sources for filling me in that the LA Times, especially Al Martinez, are finally getting the message that before too long, the way things are looking, most paper media will be occupied by unemployed writers, enraged misanthropes, retired teachers, aging journalists and people who normally pass their time doodling or making obscene telephone calls. Unless of course, they do a better job than bloggers who are tired of the LA Times and other papers getting the story wrong and using their venue to promote their own political agendas.
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