Not to pile on Paul (who is being satrical, btw) I agree with Michele, I like being a blogger.

While I think it is possible that bloggers might do actual reporting, we aren’t, collectively, primarily such–and even with blogs which end up doing actual reporting, my guess is that the actual amount of actual reporting that that site will do is pretty small.

And while Paul may have his tongue partially in his cheek, I have been blogging long enough to read many a self-important post about bloggers replacing the MSM–and that’s just plain silly.

Bloggers are analysts and commentators, pundits and public intellectual, court jesters and data miners, poligeeks and news junkies, diarists and exhbitionists, but on balance, reporters they are not.

Actaully, in true blogging fashion, Pual must be jazzed by the response to his post: he has gotten a ton of links, and no doubt has boosted Wizbang’s traffic for the day

9 Responses to “We Be Bloggers”

1. Paul Says:
   October 4th, 2004 at 5:32 pm

   I was trying to discuss the infrastructure of the blogosphere’s fact checking mechanism and I apparently did a horrible job of making my point.

   So much for trying to be funny.

2. Steven Taylor Says:
   October 4th, 2004 at 5:38 pm

   Not to fret–I responded to Michele’s post before reading yours, and having liked, more or less, what I had written, I felt the need to post it (although I did try to make sure you knew that I knew you weren’t serious).

   Actually, I do get your point about “peer review” and the academic analogy.

3. Paul Says:
   October 4th, 2004 at 9:42 pm

   Actually, I do get your point about “peer review� and the academic analogy.

   Ok let’s see.. that makes 1 down and 427,248,796 to go.

4. Paul Says:
   October 4th, 2004 at 9:44 pm

   “Actually, I do get your point about “peer reviewâ€? and the academic analogy”

   OK
   Let’s see- that makes 1 down and 497,286,723 to go.

5. Paul Says:
   October 4th, 2004 at 9:45 pm

   “Actually, I do get your point about “peer reviewâ€? and the academic analogy”

   OK Let’s see- that makes 1 down and about 2 million to go.

6. Paul Says:
   October 4th, 2004 at 9:45 pm

   Let’s see- that makes 1 down and 497,286,723 to go.

7. Paul Says:
   October 4th, 2004 at 9:53 pm

   speaking of spelling names wrong… lol

8. Sean Hackbarth Says:
   October 5th, 2004 at 11:11 am

   Can we just stop using that horrible, ugly word “blog?” It’s what barbarians drink after coming home from raping and pillaging.

9. Steven Taylor Says:
   October 5th, 2004 at 11:20 am

   I dunno–it has kinda grown on me.