What?? Bloggers who are self promotional and out simply to gain notoriety?? Stop the Presses!!

All of it--blogging, youtube, etc. etc. is happening, more than anything, because everybody wants to be famous....Which means fame becames worth less, as more and more people can achieve it

Oh well.

yawn...

her behavior (and poor reporting skills) illustrates the major problem with the much-ballyhooed democratization of the media that has been brought about by the blog revolutiion--anyone with internet acess is now a "reporter." The definition of "press" is now so wide that it's meaningless.

Everything she writes seems designed to do nothing apart from one thing: Gain attention for herself.

The Hitchens piece, however ill-conceived, was well written and, moreover, well defended. Asking that question in a room full of editors was the equivalent of her handing out her resume to every table.

It's obvious, ambitious, careerist and a tad pathetc. How sad that in the week that George W.S. Trow passed on we have the minor ascendency of such a mediocre media force.

Within the context of no context, indeed.