Just heard, from one of those lumpy, bespectled new york journalists (seriously, I have no idea who he was, but it aired today at 6 pm... he was asked something about the internet, and blew off the entire endeavor of internet writers as 'personalities who think they should be more powerful than they are, and their worshipers," The smug look on his fat face as he said this would look good being blown apart by a shotgun blast. He was so sure of himself, like he actually believes that crap. His generation had newspapers, the future will have the web.
I am amazed that on a program as seemingly sophisticated as this that I would have to get pissed off at somebody. I take this kind of thing as a personal insult. My intelligence itself begins to hurt.
They cannot see beyond the model that they are in. And right now, the print journalists have all the money to travel and investigate, but that will not remain the case. Good primary material is not always lacking in computer news, but I think most of us read others reporting and then use that material almost metaphorically for our own use. Kind of like collage making.
Literarily speaking, the internet is the best thing that could have happened to fiction writers, most of who toil in undeserved obscurity. As far as journalists go, they want to stave off the inevitable because they are terrified. Not only for their profession, but because of all the reasons we need a free press that somewhat unbiased in what they will write. Think about what politicians would try to get away with if they thought no one was ever going to call them on their folly. They are watchdogs.
When I hear statements like this reporters, I also feel everyone else out there who is writing on the net kind of cringing over this pompous asses words. We think, is it true?
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