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January 01, 2007BELTWAY BLOGROLL
The Anti-Blog Silly Season
As the news cycle slows every year at this time, journalists who are looking for stories start looking to the blogs and then attack with abandon.
We've seen national manifestations of that trend already in the recent tirades by a Wall Street Journal editorial-page editor and by syndicated columnist George Will. Now the behavior of some local bloggers in Santa Clarita, Calif., has triggered yet another attack on the blogosphere in general.
"True to the nationwide trend, Internet blogs written from and about the Santa Clarita Valley also flourished this year," the Los Angeles Daily News concluded in a story about those blogs. "It's a new kind of journalism in which bias is fine, name-calling acceptable and grammar a nonissue."
The rest of the article is a straight feature on what people can find at some of the local blogs, but it's amusing that the staff writer felt compelled to take a stereotypical poke at blogs. I'll be glad when the late-year, anti-blog silly season has ended.
Posted by Danny | 11:15 AM
