It comes hard on the heels of the Catherine Bennett episode earlier this month in which the Guardian columnist bemoaned the male domination of the blogosphere.
I don't think this is really about gender politics at all. As I said on that occasion, it has much more to do with the strange mixture of fascination and contempt that the mainstream media appears to hold towards the world of blogging.
In fact it strikes me that the relationship is becoming not unlike that which exists between the Lobby and politicians - both needing eachother while simultanesouly despising the other.
3 comments:
the relationship is not quite the same because bloggers don't need the dead-tree media - political ones spend far too much time commenting on them though - just read some "non-political ones". We bloggers should ignore the dead trees and do our own stuff.
Was it the great Ffrench Mathemagician Des Cart-Ez who said "Cogito ergo sum" (which translated means I blog therefore I am
re Jane
Am I right to think that Estonia like Russia (but unlike Inglaterra) does not have Garden Hedges - hence the absence in Russian of the expression "Not seeing the Wood for the Dead Trees"
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