Now, if this sounds like sourgrapes or petty jealousy - well then hit the back button and go back to whence you came. Anyone who has ever read my blog should know I don't begrudge success to those who deserve it. I am thrilled to see any blogger who busts their ass posting, researching, honing their craft and making a positive DIFFERENCE in either their small world, or the world at large -get their much deserved recognition - and heaven forbid, even a few coins for their effort.
But gee, if the key to success is dropping the phrase "assfucking" and "anal-sex" every five words - then my God, I would think AndrewSullivan would be "shit bomb" of blogging.
What it comes down to is this: even within the lower-tiered media of the blogosphere someone is orchestrating and manipulating what was owned by the little people - only to now feed it back to us like a shit-sandwich with big media backing. Wonkette is a manufactured blog prototype. Ana Marie Cox is the brain-child of Nick Denton. Money has been pumped into her site, she is backed by money, SHE IS PAID A SALARY and most certainly has some high fallutin’ PR company running her show. That ain't no blog I know of.
Sadly, mainstream media is buying this charade. Parading her around like the town whore, where everyone gets a ride. She is no more a "blog" than Britney Spears is a "musician."
You can package it with strawberry-blonde hair, put pink lipstick on it, slap some dirty words all over and call it a blog, but a blog it does not make.
If the bloggers of the world want to rise up and become an entity in their own right and get some of the riches they so rightly deserve, then it is high time the proletariats stand up and strike down the aristocracy with a righteous a bitchslap.
Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
Wonkette, who?
Seriously. I've gone beyond being impressed by most bloggers. Everybody's got an opinion and many of those with them are assholes.
Isn't that how it goes?
Anyhooo. How's the family? Anyone who offers something no one else or few others have -they have my attention.
If you're just there for the shock value? Booooooooooooooring. I detest reality ahows for the exact same reason. Never watched one. Ever. My life is so much better for it.
2 - Eric Olsen
The bitch sucks, the arrangement is tawdry and compromised, the presentation cynical and vile - you should mention that Nick Denton is a creepy piece of shit for engineering it.
Great job Dawn, nice pic too.
3 - Doug
Eric,
You are obviously trying to get some tonight. Such shameless "atta girl" cheerleading! Hope it works for you. Seriously, though, Dawn is absolutely correct (as are you) concerning Wonkette. Wonkette, Denton and Co. have created the blogging equivalent of Britain's "The Sun". Perhaps we need a new vocabulary to diffentiate between "True" blogging and commercially sponsered smut blogging?
peace.
4 - Eric Olsen
Doug, I atta-em as I see em, especially when I agree.
5 - Doug
Eric, I was just funnin' with ya. I hate emoticons, still I hope you get some tonight.
6 - Rodney Welch
Wonkette rocks and so does Ana Marie Cox -- how's that for a couplet? I read Wonkette every day, and I'm a fan of Ana Marie -- whom I only know on-line and even then just a little. She's smart, she's funny, and I've admired her a long time, dating back to her days at the late and much-lamented suck.com to her initiation last year of her blog The Antic Muse -- which she started on her own and which managed to get noticed pretty quickly, and which led to Wonkette. The way I understand the story, Denton was attracted to the idea of starting up Wonkette based on what he saw at The Antic Muse. So I don't begrudge her success at all. I'll admit she has off-days, but the success of her site has a lot to do with timing, marketing, right place, right time -- and the Washingtonienne scandal didn't hurt either. Anyway, Ana's groovy in my book.
7 - Eric Olsen
Rodney, well there you go providing balance. I just find her icky in every way.
8 - Dawn
Hey, to each his own - but as they say, there is no accounting for taste.