doodledee

I caught maybe two-thirds of yesterday's MPR Midmorning show. (I missed the rest because I was driving around at the time and I had to get out of my car and go into a building. Curse you stupid job.) The topic was How Blogs are Changing All The Rules or something crazy like that. The featured guest was big-shot-professor-and-quasi-famous-political-blogger Jay Rosen. I say quasi-famous because I'd never heard of him but apparently a lot of other people had. ('Quasi' is Latin for "known only to journalism nerds".)

The conversation started kind of highbrow and politically focused. Things like "should bloggers be given equal journalistic access during the campaign?" and "should they be held to the same standards and print journalists?", etc, etc. Arguably a neat topic, I guess. Unfortunately, it quickly melted down into a Blogs Rule! fan club meeting. People would call in and talk about how awesome blogs are and talk about their own blogs and the blogs of their friends and how they *totally* don't care about factual accuracy and how Michael Moore is being censored and Bush sucks and newspapers are for chumps because they're old and slow.

Yesterday I wrote about the best way to eat Pringles.

Take that, New York Times.

Listen to the show on Real Audio [mpr] [57 minutes]