I don't click into Pajamas Media anymore. I have a valued and trusted friend do it for me and send word what they are prattling on about each day, and how he manages to do so is a test of true comraderie. You know what they say about friendship; a good friend will help you move, a great friend will help you move a body.
Anyways, getting all teary-eyed here, anyways, aside from Part II of TRYING TO BEAT THIS BORING DEAD HORSE TO LIFE they've been referring to as the UN flubdubbery of making noise that THEY want in on running the internet...I know, I know, this is so earthshattering a story it might very well warrant a daily posting for years to come...the main headline today is what many bloggers have paid some attention to then moved on.
An interesting piece to be sure, but not something you'd wish atop your blog for the entire day because, let's face it, the audience is picky and wants new stories or they ain't a'stayin'.
"A biting but hard-to-access John Tierney piece in The New York Times, described here by To the Point, whacks the U.S. for planting military-produced news stories in the Iraqi media. The Los Angeles Times manages to equate these ham-handed manipulations with a lack of independent press in Iraq. Have traditional American journalists really not yet discovered the independent media in Iraq: local bloggers who risk their lives to offer real-time reports, led by people like dentist-brothers Mohammed and Omar at Iraq the Model? Today, Iraq the Model offers an update on the mid-December national elections that you won't see in the independent U.S. media. Other independent Iraqi media issuing fresh reports include: An Average Iraqi, who describes the fevered election climate not unlike California's recall, and Baghdad Treasure, who has just arrived in Boston for his first contact with Western soil. Iraqi Bloggers Central has an extensive list of local Iraqi bloggers busily at work. Also, John G. McDaid has fun with the Tierney expose."
Eight, count 'em, eight links. So is this how they figure to get the mini-bloggers on staff some hits? Contribute some introductions to a piece then link to a shitstorm of what others are saying about it?
Who the frig has the time to follow all of these links? In one long-ass paragraph, no less. Can you frickin imagine a page, an entire page filled with gigunda paragraphs each containing so many links your browser needs to be on viagra just to stay up?
And for a fella that hates question marks because everything he says is rhetorical, what's up with me going all emotional and needing excessive punctuation?
Ah, yeah. The good-buddy-helps-you-move-a-body, deal.
I'm just an old softy.
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