In a typically knee-jerk contrarian post on his site, Nick Carr jerks his knee and takes me to task by leaping (as he predictably does) to the other side of this Forbes vs Blogs topic. The trouble is, there is no other side (at least with respect to my comments): While bloggers can be thin-skinned, I cheerfully conceded as much in my earlier post on Forbes’ silly, attention-seeking anti-blog cover article.
The real issue, Carr’s tiresome knee-jerk contrarianism aside, is that Lyons’ article in Forbes was thinly-reported agenda-driven dreck, precisely the sort of thing that Forbes alleges taints the blog-o-sphere (which, Forbes’ hyperbolic hand-wringing aside, doesn’t much care about business anyway).
Finally (I hope) on this topic, as most readers of this site will know, I’m not one of those people who prattle on and on about blogs vs. the so-called mainstream media (MSM, as it’s irritatingly abreviated). Matter of fact, I really don’t care about the issue of whether journalism beats blogs, vice-versa, or whether both are beat by sock puppets with pens. Blogs have a place in my reading, as do mainstream outlets — including those heretics at Forbes — but a trumped-up either/or false dichotomy predicated on assuming the conclusion does diddly for me.
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