So tonight, I had the stellar opportunity of having someone tell me that bloggers have no credibility, that alternative presses and established newspapers have a credibility that I will never have. And no one reads us, I was told, which I wholeheartedly agree with.
And yet, I wonder - WHO IS CREDIBLE? As I've said before, who among the mainstream or alternative presses managed to denounced the war before it was fashionable to do so? I did. On a blog. In cyberspace. In "un-credible" land.
I was further told that until I had some academic credentials for the fields I write in, that I'd just be a guy with an opinion...ummmm...and with a larger circ. than the fucking academics who want to dis what I say from the position of their unread journals.
Martin Berman said it best..."the 20th century...will be a time when all that is solid MELTS INTO AIR." (He was a little early, but not by much. Theodore Roosevelt said it well also - "If you can't stand the heat, get [the FUCK] out of the kitchen." You want credibility? Ask Ari Fleisher for a quote from President Dumb-Ass. That's about as close as you could get. Sounds like fun, that CRED-A-BILITY shit.
Well, it's kinda strange: the "alternative" press started out as the "underground" press of the 1960s with no credibility -- even though they moved a complicit and compliant national press corps off their corpulent asses over Vietnam.
ReplyDeleteAnd even though they broke story after story. And did they have degrees in journalism or English? Heck no.
Odd thing is, bloggers have filled precisely the same role in the present day. And the snarkers-- most especially in the mainstream press-- are the self-same self-satisfied and even more corpulent sleazebags that they were before.
There is no distinction between lies that are printed and lies that are only available online.
The same goes for the truth.
Please tell me what nitwit made the statement in question, so that I can kick their spotted ass when next I visit the Land of Disenchantment.
Imbeciles is imbeciles and snobs is snobs and often, coincidentally, they're the same people.