The Lone Ortho

Marooned on a secular college campus, I created this blog for the dual purpose of venting and sharing my experiences, pleasant and otherwise. Join me as I traverse the treacherous terrains of galus; it's been a harrowing, yet worthwhile journey thus far. Feel free to partake in the smattering of snide remarks, random Paul Simon references, and utterly ridiculous CS jokes.

Thursday, October 28, 2004

I Side with the Bolsheviks

Other bloggers have already commented on an article in the Commie which denigrates J-blogging, called “An Evil Empire?” written by the Editor-in-Chief. Needless to say I wholeheartedly disagree with the majority of the article, but will defer to others who have already provided pithy explanations. One point: He blasts the poor *journalistic* standards of the Olam HaBlog in contrast to those of traditional media. By the way, Mr. Editor, there’s a grammatical error (I shall assume this is simply a typo) in the first sentence of your article. *Professional* standards indeed…..

1 Comments:

  • At 4:53 PM, Blogger Eli7 said…

    Ok, now maybe i'm missing something here and the links touch on this point, but #1, blogs are not journalism (just as Jon Stewart's show is not journalism, might i add) and #2, one would be hard pressed and slightly ridiculous to call any of the jewish newspapers "journalism" either. But to even say that people go to blogs for their news, well that's just stupid. (not to mention the fact that going to the YU Commentator for news would probably be equally stupid, but...) Blogs are centers for opinion and subjectivity and that's a great thing. They're not trying to win the Pulitzer.

     

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