Nick Coleman Is Pissed
And he doesn't care much for bloggers:
Do bloggers have the credentials of real journalists? No. Bloggers are hobby hacks, the Internet version of the sad loners who used to listen to police radios in their bachelor apartments and think they were involved in the world.
Bloggers don't know about anything that happened before they sat down to share their every thought with the moon. Like graffiti artists, they tag the public square -- without editors, correction policies or community standards. And so their tripe is often as vicious as it is vacuous.
Last week, one fashionable Minnesota blogger -- a bank vice president who is getting a lot of ink and TV time lately -- posted a scurrilous piece about U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, calling him, "Minnesota's contribution to the psychiatric profession."
Nick, I truly am sorry that right-wing bloggers have called you bad names and said mean things about you; but you sound like a cranky old man yelling at the kids to stay the hell off your lawn. By responding to it you give them credibility. And you only add fuel (in this case right-wing fecal matter) to the always-burning fire. Besides, if you really are the grisled journalistic veteran you claim to be, I would assume by now you'd know not to take things so personally. I've been doing this for, what, six months... and that was the first lesson I learned.
Listen. We all know we're pieces of shit compared to professional journalists like you, Nick. We all know we're obsessive, shut-in nerds who don't have editors and therefore don't know anything like you do, and therefore shouldn't be allowed to have opinions about things like you should, Nick. We know all this. So loosen up a little. No one's stealing your job.
Oh, wait... before I go, buddy: which left-wing blogger were you referring to who "has made a practice of speculating on the president's penis size"? I wanna add them to my blogroll.
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The most mystifying part of Coleman's argument, for me, is the part where he appears to be saying that he's a better writer and a better commentator BECAUSE HE HAS AN EDITOR. Which is counterintuitive; if any old yahoo with a Blogger account can make cogent observations that cause a reaction, without the assistance of a professional editor, then wouldn't that person actually be BETTER at the job than someone who requires Perry White to keep them 'on message,' or whatever?
Also, his analogy sucks. The folks who sit around and listen to the police scanner are voyeurs. Y'all are participants. Coleman's columns have too often been the passive sort of unhelpful, woe-is-us sort of commentary, and in a climate like this one, where smart people say smart things without getting paid or owing anybody for the privilege, I guess I'd feel threatened too.
Coleman is capable of excellent work. Sometimes he produces it. But he's annoyed now, because there's a new market for ideas and his stock is shifting. C'est la freakin' vie, I say.
- Erik
nick nick nick never piss off the peasants.
I'm going to see if I can interview him.
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Factor this in: The Fraters guys have been rather obsessed with Nick Coleman.
Wonkette is the blogger obsessed with presidential genitalia.
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