ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 24, 2005 @06:47PM from the nail-hit-on-head dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "American Library Association president Michael Gorman is not too fond of bloggers and blogging. '[The] Blog People (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do not share that belief... Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.'"

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Re:Couldn't be more true by daveschroeder · 2005-02-24 19:10 · Score: 1, Troll

Go to http://www.foxnews.com/ and, outside of the opinion section, find me a story that is viciously partisan, or inaccurate.

Watch FNC during the day during "hard news" coverage (i.e., FOX & Friends, FOX News Live, Special Report, the FOX Report), NOT op-ed (i.e., Hannity and Colmes, O'Reilly Factor) and find any inaccurate or overly one-sided reporting.

FNC broke several of the anti-Bush stories, such as the Bush drunk driving story.

If all you believe about FOX News is what you read in blogs, you're part of the problem I'm talking about.