Posted by
Michael on Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:48:42 AM
TRV will love
this one:Print This: Your Blast Into the Blogosphere Insults Your Readers
Uh oh. Now you’ve done it. In one fell swoop Joseph Rago has managed to
insult a large swath of your readership for whom the Journal was the
one remaining mainstream media (MSM) product it still consumed (”The
Blog Mob,” editorial page, Dec. 20). Blogs are “Written by fools to be
read by imbeciles”? What a lovely thing to say to your own readers.
Thank God we have Mr. Rago to lead us to the “truth.” No longer will
I have to wade through blogs and make decisions for myself regarding
the value of what I am reading. Finally, I am free to cancel my
Internet service and put my civic education back in the hands of the
experts where it belongs. And for my part, I will come clean and admit
to having missed Katie, Barbara, Dan, Anderson, Maureen and all the
other “journalists” who work so tirelessly for me. Does al Jazeera have
a print version? It would be so much fun to curl up with it on a Sunday
morning and catch up. Thank God the experts are back.
I’ll miss James Taranto and the other misguided bloggers at
OpinionJournal.com. They were fun, and cheeky, but clearly so
misguided. I hope you are generous in your severance package —
remember, it is the holiday season. Or perhaps, now that your print
edition subscriber base will undoubtedly explode, you can find a place
for them on the loading dock. It’s hard work, but honest, and will keep
them, and us, out of trouble.
Steven Gruber
Syosset, N.Y.