The Blog Mob
"Written by fools to be read by imbeciles."

 

	JOSEPH RAGO On Blogs Rago is an established reporter with the WSJ, and he has taken the 'Bloggers' to task.
Dangerous Fools How much more evil can exist?  Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a blog.

Main Stream Media It's the alternative media (common morons) versus the main stream media (Larry Kings) . With the main stream media you get quantified reporting, that is never slanted.
Everyone With A Computer Internet technology, with it's ease of dissemination must be watched, monitored, and filtered.

	Not On Par With Real Reporters Bloggers are essentially bottom feeders, living off the greats like Alan Colmes. They ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.

Lack Of Quality Control The larger problem with blogs, it seems to me, is quality. Most of them are pretty awful. Many, even some with large followings, are downright appalling.

	Bloggers Are News Thieves These whores don't write the news, they tapped into the source, and then alter it for their agenda.

Instant Delivery Blogs are the equivalent of pizza delivered instantly to mindless Americans, as they sit on their fat asses watching TV.

	A Child's Diary Blogging is an inferior medium, its closest analogue might be the (poorly kept) diary or commonplace book.

Instant Opinions The blogs tend to influence politics, which is dangerous. You shouldn't disparage our great leaders. What if Schummer, Feinstein, Bush, Cheney, Lantos, were put in a bad light?

	Mob Mentality The participatory Internet, in combination with the chatroom, allows sites to interrelate, this appears to encourage mobs and mob behavior.

House Of Cards The use of hyperlinks to confirm a source, no matter how preposterous, convinces the unwary fool of authenticity.

	Ability To Reach Remote Audiences An imbecile in England can talk to a conspiracy nut in New Guinea.

Predictable And Boring The petty interpolitical feuding mainly points out that someone is a liar or an idiot or both. Because political blogs are predictable, they are excruciatingly boring.

	Written For Imbeciles The blogs, unlike newspapering,  is  "written by fools to be read by imbeciles"--they have also demonstrated a remarkable ecumenicalism in filling out that same role themselves.

Good Writer Corrupted Respected writers, frustrated with the bloggers instant audience, quite eagerly trade integrity for an enlarged discourse. The quarrel over one discrete set of standards did a lot to pull down the very idea of standards.

	Stay Out Of Pool Halls  Rago sees trouble in River City, it's spelled with a capital B, and that stands for Blogs.

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Where Are All These Great Reporters That Rago Describes?

You have the History Channel telling us about 4,000,000 Jews killed  at Auschwitz, in a two car garage, by bug spray,. Then you have the Sunday Talk shows telling us about 'Little Persecuted Israel' fighting for democracy in the mideast, as their soldiers shoot 8 yr-old kids in the head. How about the Lebanon war, the one where Israel strafed convoys, bombed orphanages, and assassinated four UN observers.

But, even that really isn't the point. Who cares about blogs anyway. It really is up to the reader to decide fact from fiction. If Rago is such a 'Guardian of Decency', that let him examine that cesspool called Wikipedia, which passes itself off as the world's Internet encyclopedia.