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I remember back in 1998 when everyone was calling Matt Drudge the “new face of journalism” (and many other much-more colorful names). Since then, blogs have been hailed as some sort of Second Coming of Righteous Journalism, here to teach big media the error of its ways.
Me? I wasn’t buying it. “Poppycock,” I would scoff (or “Fiddle-Faddle” if the store was out of Poppycock). Amateur gossip mongers replacing the venerable fourth estate? Never! This particular web surfer swore he would never rely on mere bloggers as a primary news resource.
Never name that well from which you will not drink.
You may remember that I was recently brainwashed into becoming a Hornets fan. This evening, I found myself wondering how the Boys from Big Easy fared in tonight’s game. This was their first showing in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina gave them the longest “away” tour in NBA history.
So where did I go for my “primary news source” — Sports Illustrated? NBA.com? ESPN? Nope — I went to Dustbury. Yes, I went to a mere blogger (albeit a very good mere blogger) for my news fix. I won’t say that the earth shook, but my desk might have bobbled once or twice.
So much for the strength of my convictions. If anyone has any dead crows laying around, I’ll gladly eat them along with my words.
PS: If I’m not mistaken, Dustbury scooped The Oklahoman (a real newspaper… sort of) by several minutes. Not too shabby!
PPS: The Hornets lost.
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1998 was 8 years ago. Wow. in 1998 I had no intention of owning a computer much less surfing the net. Heck, I didn’t even know about “blogers” until you started this site.
I am a real pro at saying in definite terms what I will and won’t do, and I am usually stuck eating humble pie, with a side of VANILLA ice cream, thank you very much. So does this mean I am destined to go to a pro ball game of some sort? Eww, I hope not. If life is true to form then I’ll be stuck not only attending, but actually enjoying the event.
ios?!? ios? Can you add “spell checker” for morons like me?
Fixed. I’m not a real editor, but I can play one on my own blog.
Actually, I got the game seven seconds behind the rest of the world: I was listening to the KTOK radio broadcast, and keeping my own informal stats page, since nba.com was inexplicably about ten minutes slow with their live boxscore.
The Oklahoman writers - presumably Mayberry and/or Gilman, though I haven’t checked bylines this morning - put out a lot more product than I did, and until they file, NewsOK.com relies on a wire service which is a lot less speedy than Speedy.
Yeah but blogging is much better than traditional news media, right? I trust only Landoverbaptist.com and whitehouse.org for all my opinion scources.
Just a comment on what Fred said. Off subject from Joe’s original post, but it would be nice if there was a way to add a spell checker to your blog. I’m not sure if it can even be done. I constantly find myself doing online dictionary checks on some words, so I don’t look like an idiot. (Not a stretch) Even then, I realize mistakes after I have already posted. Heck, in the beginning of this post, I could have mistakenly replaced “what Fred said” with “Right Said Fred.” “I’m too sexy for this Blog” anyone? Google it if you don’t get it.