Watch The Goalposts Move
The Kos-Armstrong blogola scandal is already hugely entertaining (synopsis here, for anybody who hasn't been following).
The details are fascinating enough -- allegations (from the right, but curiously, also from the left blogosphere) about pay-blogging without proper disclosure, threats of lawsuits, emails urging supporters to starve the story of oxygen. It's a regular blog soap opera. Not quite as good as a full-blown Objectivist schism, but still entertaining.
What is most fun is to watch certain members of the reading-challenged community who were literally frothing about Ben Domenech and Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher (conservatives all) try to explain why this matter is no big deal, and that it's just more treachery from conservative meanies!
Err, yeah, that's what it is.
In any case, feel free to email me if you'd like me to write nice things about someone on the blog. And send money. Lots of it.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/21/06 23:19 | Media Matters | Technorati
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This seems much ado about nothing, whether it's the conservative commentators or the kook left. If I argue that A is A, my argument is correct even if I was paid to make it. On the other hand, if I argue that A is not A simply because I am deluded, that lack of a payoff doesn't make it so. If the readers are capable of independent thought, the payoffs are irrelevant as a bad argument will out itself. Of course, in this case we are talking about Kos readers so maybe it does matter...
Posted by Tom Hanna @ 14:39 on 06/22/06
Not quite as good as a full-blown Objectivist schism, but still entertaining.
Now that is funny.
Posted by Evan/PvW @ 20:37 on 06/22/06
I like Orrin Judd's headline:
IF THE STAKES WEREN'T SO SMALL, THE SPAT WOULD BE MORE FUN
http://www.brothersjudd.com...
That's the reality-challenged community for ya!
Posted by Kevin @ 22:25 on 06/22/06
What I think is kind of fun is these guys' conceit that they're journalists of some kind. Some blogs actually do a little reporting from time to time, but these two certainly don't.
Why would you be surprised that allegations are coming from the left?
1. there's that "journalistic integrity" angle to consider
2. we on the left have the tendency to eat our own, don't you know (something the right is slowly but surely starting to learn a little about)
Posted by another precinct chair @ 12:30 on 06/23/06
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