Thursday, July 23, 2009
Hip Hop
From time to time I am going to post some of my freestyling. I want to say a few things from the get go. If you think my rhymes are whack, please keep that to yourself. I don't want to hear what you think about my flow unless you agree with me that it's ridiculous. Also on occasion I might assume a character. Just like some rappers are not really violent drug dealers, I'm not really a CIA agent breaking various Israelis out of third world prisons. You could say I'm like Jewish people's CNN.
A note to fellow bloggers
Welcome Weekly Standard readers. This was not meant to be a serious project. I initially thought that blogging was a fad. But I also thought The Answer for a while was the greatest guard in the history of basketball. I was wrong on both counts. Anyway, here are my reservations.
1) I can't really blog about what I know best, since the verified version of what I know best ends up in print.
2) I look down my nose at most of the assorted ideologues in their pajamas. I am a journalist. I wear a tie and press pass. I always try to keep in front of my mind what it is that I don't know. A lot of bloggers act like they know everything.
3) While there are many journalists who also blog, and also some truly wonderful bloggers who are just great writers, a lot of the sphere just does whack-ass press criticism, grinding axes for a particular side of a debate. Many blogs end up being Kosher cops for particular strains of the American polity. Don't take that necessarily as a sign of disrespect. I mean TNR were the Kosher cops for the Democrats in the era of Reagan.
4) The American media is the best in the English language. I think the sphere is too hard on journalists. The right says reporters want to be invited to socialist cocktail parties (PS. they are often spectacular). The netleft gets sanctimonious about the lap dog media before the Iraq war. I think both sides are wrong. The newspapers are biased. They are biased in favor of selling newspapers. The key to understanding the media is to understand that all reporters must struggle between pleasing their sources and pleasing their editors and ultimately earning the trust of readers. The bloggers should thank us everyday for the raw material they use to fight it out. Without us, there is no you.
So with all of that, I am going to do this anyway.
1) I can't really blog about what I know best, since the verified version of what I know best ends up in print.
2) I look down my nose at most of the assorted ideologues in their pajamas. I am a journalist. I wear a tie and press pass. I always try to keep in front of my mind what it is that I don't know. A lot of bloggers act like they know everything.
3) While there are many journalists who also blog, and also some truly wonderful bloggers who are just great writers, a lot of the sphere just does whack-ass press criticism, grinding axes for a particular side of a debate. Many blogs end up being Kosher cops for particular strains of the American polity. Don't take that necessarily as a sign of disrespect. I mean TNR were the Kosher cops for the Democrats in the era of Reagan.
4) The American media is the best in the English language. I think the sphere is too hard on journalists. The right says reporters want to be invited to socialist cocktail parties (PS. they are often spectacular). The netleft gets sanctimonious about the lap dog media before the Iraq war. I think both sides are wrong. The newspapers are biased. They are biased in favor of selling newspapers. The key to understanding the media is to understand that all reporters must struggle between pleasing their sources and pleasing their editors and ultimately earning the trust of readers. The bloggers should thank us everyday for the raw material they use to fight it out. Without us, there is no you.
So with all of that, I am going to do this anyway.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
If a certain person with the initials N P is reading
Dude,
Dudester. Seriously. Really. Seriously. You should put me on that call. Cause check it out. I am a blogger now. Let me prove it. PWN. LOL. ROFL. Not bloggy enough for you. Check this out. This is my favorite scene from the movie See what I just did there? I embedded my link in the object of my sentence, so when you click it, it goes to my favorite scene in the movie House Party. I'm in. It's like I've always been here. Get me on that call.
Peace out,
Vitamin,
editor and chief of elaketricity
Hello blogosphere
I am starting a blog so I can get on a certain world leader's press operation "blogger conference call." I am also starting a blog because I have a lot to say about the world that does not fit into my news stories. If you are looking for some career ending rant about what I cover you can forget it and take that back to media matters. But if you want to know what's what when it comes to hip hop, the sixers and a lot of other stuff. Then stick around partner. Cause I intend to bring it!
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