Blogging Garbage at the S. F. Chronicle
Has anyone looked at the front page piece of crap article on blogging in today’s San Francisco Chronicle?
The article starts with a classical rhetorical fallacy, the straw man, taking the form of a hackneyed stereotype of bloggers (pajama-wearing partisan ranters) the author pretends to explode using a study as evidence. A study . . . as everyone over the age of four knows, the expression ” a study shows” pretty much translates to “the following is bullshit.”
And no offense to Pew/Internet, but the study was conducted by phone. Phone. Bloggers. Right. With all of 223 bloggers. Wow, what garbage. And C.W. Nevius apparently also thinks 223 is a representative sample.
The Reader’s Digesty piece focuses on the idea that bloggers aren’t journalists, they’re people who want to share their lives with the world. Well guess what–journalism is in a monstrous state of flux right now, and the real story is about how journalism is being redefined by itself and the community it services.
Get a clue, Chron.
Afternoon addenda: see today’s related pieces by B.L. Ochman and Slate c/o Blogebrity).
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