Comments on: David Shaw on Self-Important Ranters

By: furious

furious — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:53:03 +0000

Speaking of self-important ranters…

…does our bloghost even bother fisking Robert Scheer, or is that too much like wrestling with a pig?

Apropos of Scheer, who was it who said: “Every word of his is a lie, including “and” and “the”.”?

–furious

By: Patterico

Patterico — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:06:45 +0000

Let’s not get carried away. They certainly have way more readers than *I* have.

By: russ

russ — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:05:32 +0000

Kevin Murphy (#1) asks an excellent question…

Gee, I wonder if Dowd or Shaw have as many readers as Patterico or Reynolds?

By: antimedia

antimedia — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:49:26 +0000

Even more laughable is the fact that the editors have an expected audience whereas bloggers have none. Bloggers earn their audience by compelling writing. The Times’ editors are given their audience by their progenitors, who built their audience for them.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:40:03 +0000

But some news opinion journalists are just self-important ranters who seem to wake up every morning convinced that the entire Free World awaits their opinions on any subject that’s popped into their heads since their last fevered opinion column.

There is no doubt that this is true. There are literally thousands of news journalists. So I’d be shocked if “some news journalists” also didn’t fit Shaw’s description.

By: Rod Stanton

Rod Stanton — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:33:56 +0000

It seems to me he had a specific blog in mind.

By: Veeshir

Veeshir — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:02:37 +0000

The funny part is when a favorite blogger doesn’t post you see all sorts of comments all over demanding free ice cream.
Instapundit takes an hour off and the blogosphere stops. I’m still mad at Allah for forsaking me.

This nitwit is just jealous.

By: Confederate Yankee

Confederate Yankee — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:49:56 +0000

With such a huge emphasis on all-important self-esteem from the left, I would have thought that he would encourage “self-important ranters.”

You aren’t trying to tell me that a liberal could be a hyprocrit, are you?

By: Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:25:26 +0000

How would Shaw rate Maureen Dowd then?

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