April 06, 2007
Why Your Blog Sucks
8) You tell people to watch videos on the Web without actually linking to them.
Posted by abostick at April 6, 2007 02:33 PM
I hope you don't mind an off-topic comment, but I think this is important: There is a great post on The Carpetbagger Report from a few days ago about the mainstream media's (specifically Time magazine's) ignoring the prosecutor purge scandal.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10367.html
What explains the failure of the mainstream media to cover the purge scandal for so long, and so many other scandals? Do you think somebody just set up newspaper editors to cheat on their wives, and threatened to tell if the editors wouldn’t play ball when they come back some day and ask for something?
It wouldn’t be that hard to do, when you think about it. People wouldn’t talk about it.
Time is not the whole of the mainstream media. Their not covering the story makes them a laughingstock. The extent to which a news publication fails to cover a story in which its readers are actively interested, that magazine loses relevance to those readers. It's a failure of marketing.
Remember that Time, for eighty years now, is pretty much the print equivalent of Fox News. Henry Luce and Rupert Murdoch are two peas from the same political pod. There was a short time after Luce's death where the magazine drifted leftward, but those days are plainly over.
Finally, posting off-topic comments in other people's blogs is one way to give a subject out into the discourse and give it some legs. But that tactic is strengthened by posting on-topic comments in those same blogs and building up some reputation capital. The way you are doing it here looks like a drive-by, and some people are going to treat it that way.
Posted by: Alan Bostick at April 8, 2007 11:02 AM