Ken Tremendous Sticks up For Blogs
From Firejoemorgan.com:
What Bissinger did that was so annoying to me was: he lumped all of these into one thing ("Deadspin," essentially), and furthermore, conflated the actual blog and the people who write for it with the silly comments people make at the bottom of every article.It's a big dumb ignorant mistake to do this. It's a big hot wet mushy smelly bonebrained mistake to mix blog comments and blog articles. It's an even bigger mistake, in my opinion, to disparage the level of discourse on the Internet and use blog comments as an example. (And swear a ton while doing it, while saying that the Internet is "profane.") Picking a random blog comment and wielding it as a club to bash "blogs" is like picking a random romance novel off an airport bookstore shelf and saying, "This book sucks. Fuck you, Tolstoy -- your medium is worthless!"
I'd add to it, but there's no value for me to add. I only wish that the talented guys at FJM were viewed as more indicative of blog-dom than Deadspin, which is one of my least favorite sites on the web. I just don't see its value. Yeah, there's some irony there, I know.