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I've been interviewed by Sophie Masson for Quadrant, "Australia's independent review of literature and ideas", alongside 10 other bloggers (including big guns such as Tim Blair and Daniel Pipes), for a piece about, well, blogging and the blogosphere.I know it may sound flatly blatant that one would interview bloggers to talk about blogging, but you should nevertheless appreciate that concern for pertinence, at a time when, for instance, journalists who parked their bottoms in comfy offices from Paris to Los Angeles, via New York, claim to report and give you an authoritative view on the military, economic and political situation in Iraq, when they can't even tell you if the guy who administrated the country several months in a row gave a speech before he left, and would rather assure you he didn't even though he did.
Tsssk, tsssk, tsssk.
When reporters are so incompetent at reporting, I care to remind that agriculture is frequently short-handed at that time of the year. So go ahead, do a useful job properly for once. In the meantime, we will read what the Marines who went there can tell us about you.
Having said that, I was just thinking that, as bad as mainstream media became, it's not as ludicrous (yet. But closing fast. Really fast. Oh wait, so fast that some of them are already there. And that's leaving the French pool aside, mind you, as they're ludicrous by nature.) as, say, chemistry and medicine Nobel prizes foreseeing gloomy strategic issues if we were to dare liberating Iraq, on behalf of their expertise in, huh, chemistry and medicine.
And if you recall (for those who were already reading this humble blog last year), God has a flowered shirt.
However, none of this "Everybody has an a**hole, therefore I have an opinion" kind of attitude here. Sophie Masson had such a concern for relevance in her blogosphere investigation that she even went as far as the dark side of it, interviewing blogging Lefties and other flavors of Marxists, no matter how structurally and factually wrong Marxism is.
She even mentions Darth Noam, Lord of the Chomskyites' blog - and that's short of a better word as this thing can hardly qualify as a blog. As Sophie Masson puts it:
Conspiracy theorist and darling of the anti-American left, Noam Chomsky, has started his own blog, though so far it doesnt seem to be wildly popular, due to the limp presentation and the rehashing of his printed work which appears to constitute much of his blog. Not all writers make good bloggers.Ouch. He got it coming, that old fart.
That piece was in the Quadrant's printed edition of June, but just appeared online. So despite the fact that I'm not being really nice and all that with the French press (and state. Oh, and unions too.) you may nonetheless want to read it.
You can still skip the parts where I'm being nasty and impertinent. If you have to.
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