Connie Schultz Hates Puppies
So I just watched Ohio’s own Connie Schultz on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and I learned something very interesting. Apparently us pipsqueak bloggers aren’t bound by any accountability laws. We can post whatever the heck we want and apparently no one can sue us!
This is, of course, a complete load of crap. Bloggers get sued all the time, sometimes even when they print the truth.
But you know what? Connie let this pass as fact, so let’s run with it. As of this moment, Connie Schultz hates puppies. Go on out and tell your friends.
Something tells me this goes higher up the food chain the PD than Connie Schultz. One columnist's angst toward the blogosphere would not be sufficient to warrant national television (even with Craig Ferguson).
An entire industry's anger? That's another matter entirely. I think the reason you're seeing so much vitriol from the PD and other papers about blogs is that they're hurting for revenue right now, and their inability to make the internet a tool capable of propping up the print enterprise is the reason why. They're also frustrated because they often do get scooped by "guys in their PJs writing from their mother's basements," and further frustrated that those guys write for free.
Do I think we as bloggers can replace investigative journalism and truly serve as the fourth estate in this country? Not at all. There is a place for institutional, "unbiased" media. But the PD and others are presently in the tizzy they are because, when it comes to opinion and the occasional piece of "scoopy" news, they can't compete with blogs. We have cheaper overhead, greater volume, and are frankly more entertaining.
So, not to be a conspiracy theorist, but this effort by Connie and others is (in my view) part of a larger campaign to discredit blogs and other news outlets and rescue the print news industry. Do I have evidence? No...but I have a feeling, an opinion, and a keyboard. I'm not a journalist. I'm an opinion writer, (hopefully) an entertainer, and (to some extent) a catalyst for further conversation about issues that matter.
The point here? Maybe we should all take a cue from Barbara Streisand, and remember that "there's a place for us": all of us.
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Conservative? Liberal? Ohioan.
http://buckeyepunditeers.blogspot.com
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Conservative? Liberal? Ohioan.
http://buckeyepunditeers.blogspot.com
It seems they are friends from back when he was doing the Drew CareyShow and she had been on a few times promoting her books.
But this interview she spent time complaining about bloggers and the flame war that errupted when she suggested bloggers pay for linking to newstories.