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Ted Dziuba is why I hate the Internet. I don't just mean that as a clever reply to the title. The Internet lets everyone be heard, instead of just the "qualif
by theoneill 18y ago
Ted Dziuba is why I hate the Internet. I don't just mean that as a clever reply to the title. The Internet lets everyone be heard, instead of just the "qualified" people who used to get to publish their opinions in the print era. For the most part that's good, but there's a small group of writers who specialize in mean-spirited linkbait that makes me miss the editors who filtered everything in the old days.
- raganwald 18y ago"The Internet lets everyone be heard" => upmodded for truth. Everyone gets a soapbox and teh right to yell as loudly and as profanely as they like. "instead of just the "qualified" people who used to get to publish their opinions in the print era" => upmodded for humour. Have you ever read anything in a newspaper owned by Conrad Black? Or anyone else, really? Print media may employ professional journalists. But their "research" is flawed, they have a habit of regurgitating press releases from their advertisers and the political parties their owners support, and they pander to the prejudices of their readers. Freedom of the press belongs to everyone who can afford a printing press. The internet is the cheapest, most unencumbered and uncensored printing press in history.
- olefoo 18y agoWhich is what makes it both the most endearing and the most infuriating timesink ever.