There I sat, staring at this strange cartoon at the end of the New York Times Review of Books, wondering for the the umpteenth time how this rag (or any other major newspaper) could be considered by anyone, anywhere, to be part of some liberal media conspiracy. After mentioning it to Ms Viki, she pointed me towards an article on coporate blogging. It was less than news, it was less than edutainment, but it was some kind of typing, I'll have to admit that, though. Then this morning I sit down at the old CRT and start rummaging through my blogroll. There was an entry in Commonplaces Improprieties today pointing me at entry on another blog I hadn't visited before. Jeanne Sessum reads that same article about corporate blogging and slays self by leaping to a firey death.
Well, yes, it seems that the corporate media have discovered blogs and blessed them in their benign corporate way. Look! over here! some CEO blogs, and it's really just some kind of new-fangled, geekified marketing. It's all right, Mr and Mrs America, you can go back to your pool parties — I'd seen Goodbye Columbus over the weekend — and such. As Tom at Commonplaces points out in his entry, it's all part of a dreary cycle that big journalism churns through whenever exposed to something new and truly newsworthy. Then it came back to me. Something I'd read over at Adam Curry's site [via a big link on Marc Canter's blog:
I've been interviewed hundreds of times. By broadcasters, publications, newspapers, magazines, school papers. You name it, they've interviewed me.
Not once, ever, has the result been factually correct.
So, my big story this morning à la New York Times is that newspapers lie, dammit!
Posted by jim at June 23, 2003 08:20 AM