No more Tuesday Morning Quarterback for awhile

beeFymojo: espn.com just ousted Gregg Easterbrook (one of their best non-sports-people-but-still-serious-about-sports columnists) presumably because of something he miswrote about Jews off-site
Moogle: Something he mis-wrote?
beeFymojo: [Edited for length: text is here in the 10.16.2003 entry.
beeFymojo: as he explains it, he didn't mean to bring in the jews-love-the-money stereotype
beeFymojo: meant more to go for, how can the victims of horrible violence also market it
Moogle: I got more of a "Jews are corrupting us" sort of thing.
Moogle: Yeah, I can see the glimmer of that argument lying in there.
beeFymojo:obviously, what he wrote was bad
Moogle: But, yeah, this is why you have people look over your work.
beeFymojo: but that is part of the problem with the quick-update philosophy of the web right now
beeFymojo: the blog mentality, so to speak
Moogle: Oh well, he'll get his foot surgically removed from his mouth, and get a job somewhere else.
beeFymojo: yeh
beeFymojo: i just hope the football column gets picked up quickly
Moogle:Uh huh
beeFymojo: i'd paste some quotes in here, but espn eradicated the whole archive
beeFymojo: it is a good thing that RF has taken a year to get its first issue out
Moogle: Yeah, otherwise you guys would totally have come across as the New Hitler Youth of the critical world, or something.
beeFymojo: and our publisher would fire us all
Moogle: Hey, speaking of insta-update and blog mentality, I've been reading Transmetropolitan...
beeFymojo: o?
beeFymojo: how is that?
Moogle: Oh, it's good.
Moogle: Especially if you have delusions of being a writer or journalist.
Moogle: But the "Feedsite" thing Ellis put in there is remarkably similar to blog-news
Moogle: Basically, people sign up to be "listeners," and run around equipped with backpacks that feed everything they see and hear into these massive website/tv station things.
Moogle: These are then filtered and turned into television.
beeFymojo: that is interesting
Moogle: A bit more centralized than modern blogs, but I could see centralized "Plastic" style hubs of "professional bloggers" who actually get good at writing or investigative journalism, or editorials, for that matter.
beeFymojo: that may be where things ultimately go
beeFymojo: it is kind of moving that way
Moogle: Especially as professional writers are starting to keep blogs of a sort...
beeFymojo: Gregg Easterbrook, incidently has one
beeFymojo: which brings us full circle to the problem of that kind of system
beeFymojo: pretty soon, we will just have rediscovered the old media publication environment
beeFymojo: i mean, if you think about it as a frontier
Moogle: Yeah, but for a few moments, right now, it can be remarkably simple to thrust yourself into literati.
beeFymojo: in the literal frontier you had people just going and living independently off the land...
beeFymojo: and here we are
beeFymojo: yeah. it's nice to have a moment
Moogle: Yup. Pay attention. This is history.