|
|
Navigate The Post
Command Post Main
Command Post Forum The Publisher's Desk Iraq PDA | Print | RSS Feed Politics & Elections PDA | Print | RSS Feed Global Recon PDA | Print | RSS Feed Global War on Terror PDA | Print | RSS Feed Op-Ed PDA | Print | RSS Feed TCP Archives
Search The Post
2004 Election
Analysis Antiwar Activism Axis of Weasels Civil Liberties Critique of Tactics Economy Fisks Global Strategy Home Front Support Humor or Satire Iran Iraq Reconstruction Media Bias Military strategy MSM N. Korea News Perspective Politics & The War Random Speculation Rants TCP Authorship Terrorism United Nations Views From the Other Side WMDs About The Post
Status:
1732 PolElect entries 15341 PolElect comments Our Mission Our Vision Our Values Our History Our Posting Guidelines Our Comment Policy Our Terms Of Use Our Ad Policy Join Our Team Contact: alan at command-post dot org michele at command-post dot org History As It Happened
May 2006
February 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 The Rest
The Lawyers Made Us Do It
|
March 07, 2005
Fake Blogger Admitted to White House Press Corps
Real Bloggers Shafted Again by Clueless Establishment Suits Drudge says the first "blogger" (his quotation marks AND mine) has been admitted to the White House Press Corps. Exciting, huh? Oops, put away the noisemakers and party hats. He's not a blogger. He's a corporate tool. Just like Wankette, only without the moronic anal sex jokes. The "blogger" is Garrett M. Graff, a 23-year-old employee of a company called Mediabistro.com. His official title is "editor." The "blog" is FishbowlDC, a site decorated with all the little corporate features sites like Yahoo have. A contact email address which doesn't go to the "blogger." A disclaimer. A copyright notice. A site map. The "blog" has no comments, and there are no trackbacks. Idiots. Real bloggers will never get any recognition as long as establishment hacks continue their incestuous practice of calling corporate sites "blogs." Calling this Graff person a blogger is like calling the pimply kid who brings Brit Hume doughnuts a broadcaster. A blogger pays his own bills. A blogger has comments, if at all possible. A blogger does his own writing or chooses a few friends to help. A blogger has trackbacks. A blogger links to other REAL bloggers, not the mainstream dorks Graff links to. A blogger is not an "editor." A blogger does not receive a salary, unless it's from a corporation he himself formed as a result of making money from a genuine blog. A blogger does not have interns. A blogger--most importantly--has NO ONE to answer to. Let's see what happens to little Garrett if he ever goes against the people who pay his bills. Same thing that would happen to Wankette. A quick elevator ride to the sidewalk, and a hastily-chosen successor; probably a receptionist or a janitor with an English degree. New "blogger," same "blog." If you're not essential to your blog's identity, you are not a blogger. You are what is known in the trade as "a copywriter." So the White House has admitted a lowly copywriter to the Press Corps. Wow, what progress we're making. Meanwhile, if the rest of us showed up, they'd taser us and dump us in the Potomac. I hope other REAL bloggers will have the brains to realize this is another screw job, instead of taking the bait and burbling, "Ooh, daddy, we're in the big leagues now!" Posted By Steve H. at March 7, 2005 09:49 AM | TrackBackComments
I got someone from my blog in. Eric Brewer, a contributor to BTC News, my own humble blog, posted his first WHite House dispatch here. He'll be attending the gaggle and briefings as time and the press room schedule permit.
Posted by: weldon berger Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (Click here should you choose to sign out.) As you post your comment, please mind our simple comment policy: we welcome all perspectives, but require that comments be both civil and respectful. We also ask that you avoid the extensive use of profanity, racist terms (neither of which we consider civil or respectful), and other boorish language.We reserve the right to delete any comment, and to prohibit you from commenting on this site, if we feel you have broached this policy. As a courtesy, we will first send you an email noting a violation so you understand the boundaries. This will occur only once, however, and should we ban you from our comment forums we expect that ban to be permanent. We also will frown upon those who suggest that we ban other individuals for voicing unpopular opinions, should those opinions be voiced in a civil and respectful manner. The point of our comment threads is to provide a forum for spirited though civil and respectful discourse … it is not to provide a forum in which everyone will agree with your point of view. If you can live by these rules, welcome aboard. If not, then we’re sorry it didn’t work out, and thanks for visiting The Command Post. |
![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.command-post.org/mt2/images/nav-commenters.gif)