September 26, 2004

Open letter to everybody who thinks they should have been included in that NYT Magazine thing on bloggers today

Please shut up for a minute and actually read it, like I just forced myself to. Don't just skim it for your own name, or for how many more "lefties" are named than "righties." Read it.

You dodged a bullet.

The three main bloggers it concentrates on? Matthew Klam doesn't come right out and say it, but the accumulation of details points to one conclusion: He doesn't think much of any of them. Joshua Micah Marshall is depicted as Willy Loman with a laptop; Kos comes off like a repulsive little maniac; and Wonkette... well, Klam obviously wants to nail her, but that doesn't stop him from painting a not-very-flattering portrait.

Hey, I'm just passing along what was in the article. This Klam guy is primarily a fiction writer, apparently, so who knows how much of it is real and how much has been Jaysoned. But to the other 1,999,997 bloggers out there, be glad you were nowhere near him when he was putting this together.

Update: More here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, among many, many other places. But nothing here or here or here. Weird...

Second update: That accumulation of details I mentioned? Here ya go.

Posted by Jim Treacher at September 26, 2004 07:05 PM