FT Weekend on Blogging

FT Weekend has a piece, regrettably offline, on blogging and bloggers. The piece is written by a fellow named Trevor Butterworth, who mentions the Guardian as one of his previous writing stints, so it takes little imagination to discern his bias.

Butterworth concentrates on Gawker and Wonkette, and describes the political side of the blogosphere as fleas feeding on fleas feeding on the mainstream media, which are a pack of fleas themselves, come to think of it.

Just to give an idea of his own journalistic accuracy, Butterworth neglects to mention Mickey Kaus' former stint with The New Republic.

Just another fad, fed by prolix scribblers and wannabee journalists, the FT article sums up. The NYT has nothing to fear, Butterworth says, and will remain the narrative touchstone of our daily lives, or some such blather.....

Given the flotsam and jetsam that fetches up on the White House Press beachhead, some sort of different narratives might be less mortifying to thoughtful observers....