Peggy Noonan vs. Jonathan Klein
Not really a clash of the titans. Its a gifted speech writer’s opinion vs. the president of the AOL News Network.
One of these people says that Blogging is Old School. The other says Blogging has no school at all.
Guess which one is which…
In her article on the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, Peggy Noonan muses about the fallout of the CBS debacle.
Some think bloggers and internet writers of all sorts are like the 19th century pamphleteers who made American politics livelier and more vigorous by lambasting the other team in full-throated broadsides. Actually, I’ve said that. And there are similarities. But it should be noted that the pamphleteers were heavy on screeds and colorfully damning the foe. The most successful bloggers aren’t bringing bluster to the debate, they’re bringing facts–font sizes, full quotes, etc. They’re bringing facts and points of view on those facts that the MSM before this could ignore, and did ignore. They’re bringing a lot to the debate, and changing the debate by what they bring. They’re doing what excellent reporters would do.
They will no doubt continue to be the force in 2005 that they have been the past few years. Meantime the MSM will not disappear. But it will evolve.
Then we see the juggernaught of elloquence, Jonathan Klein:
I don’t think that blogging, which is, you know, glorified Web-site hosting—that’s what it is.
*rolls eyes*
This is coming from the A-O-L News network?
(well, wait a minute) – AOL wouldn’t know a webhosting server if it hit them in their dial-up phone bank.
And As CNN hates independent bloggers, so does AOL hate independent Webhosting services. So I GUESS the quote makes SOME sense!
But even so. What a stupid quote. There is no valid comparison between the two. Its like saying Democrats are, you know, glorified telemarketers.. There is no comparison here!
Just like there is no comparison between Peggy Noonan and Jonathan Klein.
Hattips:
*rolls eyes* and tries to figure out whether she should laugh or sigh.
Comment by Erika — January 14, 2005 @ 7:51:41 PM
I hope you post some pictures of you in your cowboy-wedding duds.
Comment by Joyella — January 15, 2005 @ 8:39:20 AM