Comments on: The Word Blogger Is Not A Dirty Word

By: SayUncle » Blogger is not a dirty word

SayUncle » Blogger is not a dirty word — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:24:03 +0000

[...] notes a councilman used the word blogger as a slur. Well, to people in power, it probably is. After all, when they want a message out, they usually go [...]

By: newscoma

newscoma — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:21:11 +0000

Henry, Steve is the first person who will tell you he is not a journalist. He is just active in the community and happens to have a blog. Most successful bloggers I know are very upfront that they aren’t journalists.
I agree with you on that, and you are right, you can’t have it both ways.

By: stacymac

stacymac — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:32:10 +0000

I agree lynnster! He is destine for bigger & better things!!

By: Henry Walker

Henry Walker — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:31:14 +0000

From Silence’s column: “Noted national blogger Jeff Jarvis makes an appropriate analogy: “The FTC assumes – as media people do – that the Internet is a medium. It’s not. It’s a place where people talk. Most people who blog, as Pew found in a survey a few years ago, don’t think they are doing anything remotely connected to journalism. I imagine that virtually no one on Facebook thinks they’re making media. They’re connecting. They’re talking.”
You have interesting conversations but do you really want to hold yourselves to the standards of MSM journalists? No professional journalist would have agreed to serve on the Memphis Metro Charter Commission or, if he did, he would have had to give up reporting on the Commission’s business. You can’t have it both ways.

By: Lynnster

Lynnster — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:56:10 +0000

My viewpoint on unfortunate situations like this is that people who are still using the word “blogger” as a slur are still living in 2003 or 2004.

One of these days they’re going to wake up and have to come into 2009 (and approaching 2010) with the rest of the world – probably when they’re forced to by some other event that finally makes them painfully aware of how behind the times they truly are.

Steve, as a 20+ year Memphis resident, I would have been proud to see you in that position. As ‘Coma said, I can only imagine much bigger and better things are in your future.

By: Andy Axel

Andy Axel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:41:01 +0000

Blogito, ergo sum.

Everyone knows that it’s commenters that are the problem anyway. ;^)

By: newscoma

newscoma — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:31:18 +0000

Butter is of the good, Beth. Ask Lucas about how that all came down Saturday.
Mack, right on brother, right on!

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:27:26 +0000

Perhaps someone should inform Joe Brown that “blogger” is also interchangeable with “voter” — maybe that will register.

“Shitty, crappy blogger?” – nope, not by damn sight. But you DO like butter. That counts for something.

By: Mack

Mack — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:23:49 +0000

It used to be that the people who viewed blogging as a vanity exercise were mainly those employed by the “real media.” Even Sorkin, who I love, has a thing about bloggers not being “professional.” The fact is, bloggers break stories. Even if they merely pass a story along, it is more and more often picked up by other media and reported on as if they uncovered the story themselves.

There are good ones, there are bad ones. Name a field or profession where this is not the case.

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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:52:54 +0000

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By: Steve Steffens (LWC)

Steve Steffens (LWC) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:42:20 +0000

Preach it, sister!!!!

By: newscoma

newscoma — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:05:48 +0000

Thanks Mike. You will never know how much that means to me. Next time you go bare-knuckled, I’ll bring the beer for the after party.