Can’t say I’ve been mistaken for Jeff Goldstein lately but I know what Blood & Treasure means.
The long-entrenched media gatekeeprs don’t like it constantly getting it shoved up ’em and it so it pays them to classify bloggers as The Mob.
not in my etc, etc…
I wish people would stop talking about blogging as though it was some kind of coherent movement. I don’t want to be associated with assorted rightwing hacks and propagandists just because I happen to use the same means of electronic vanity publishing. Blogging is developing as a means for professional media to find better and cheaper commentary, which is why so many opinion mongers don’t like it. It’s also a means of expanding the beachhead for the world of propaganda and private facts. In the first instance, it’s the writing, knowledge and research that counts. In the second, you get recourse to pseudo egalitarian reasoning: I must be right because I am part if the brotherhood of the blog. As a rule of thumb, anyone who justifies their arguments or motives at any stage by referencing themselves as a blogger is almost certainly talking shite.
That’s my justification for sitting here in pyjamas and dressing gown at 4 o’clock in the afternoon up the spout then.
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