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Blogger Burnout
Liz Spiers flashes back to a prediction that may very well be on the money:
This might be the time. There's certainly been a lot of post-election, knife-throwing going on: liberal blogs versus conservative blogs; conservative blogs versus liberal blogs; liberal blogs versus liberal blogs; conservative blogs versus MSM; liberal blogs versus marginal, fringe, conservative web site reporters; etc. etc. There was a great line from the Ron Howard movie The Paper, in which Robert Duvall, playing a newspaper editor in a news meeting talking about the legion of opinion columnists, wonders aloud when people will just "shut...the...@#$@#$....up." The great thing about the blogosphere is that it gives everyone the chance to be a newspaper columnist. It's also the drawback of the blogosphere. Not enough people know when to, well, what Robert Duvall said. Well, if nothing else, baseball season is around the corner so instead of conservative blogs versus liberal blogs, we'll get back to a good diet of Red Sox blogs versus Yankee blogs. At least in baseball, there's an off-season to keep players and fans from burning out. By Ed Moltzen · 24 February 2005
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check out this Yankee-Red sox Blog Sample: U.S. Representative: Schilling Begged to Testify An anonymous U.S. Representative revealed that the subpoena issued to Curt Schilling by the House Government Reform Sub-Committee was the result of faxes and phone calls by the Red Sox pitcher to government officials, begging for his inclusion. In one of the first faxes, Schilling stated that he felt his participation in the hearings was “in the best interests of baseball and the country.” After not receiving a response, Schilling began a fax campaign to right-wing conservative representatives, stating that “God wants me to do this, and we all know what an angry God can be like.” more at potfry.blogspot.com Posted by: Bob at March 11, 2005 11:45 AMPost a comment
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