{"id":5685,"date":"2007-05-10T08:24:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T12:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2007\/05\/10\/film-blogger-shitstorm\/"},"modified":"2007-05-10T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T19:40:14","slug":"film-blogger-shitstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2007\/05\/10\/film-blogger-shitstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Blogger Shitstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to decide for a few days whether to acknowledge this, but it’s getting so big now that I suppose I have to, if for no other reason than to greet the loads of new visitors I am now getting. A blogger made a strange complaint about my Hannah Takes the Stairs post<\/a>, which I dismissed at the time as quackery. He complained that my post did not contain plot summary and was not a ‘traditional’ review. Something I agree with and do not apologize for, and further if anyone is looking for that they should leave now because you’ll never find it here. I didn’t go to grad school to write movie capsules. And I didn’t start a blog to write newspaper reviews. But then a blogger who should know better<\/a> picked up the cause and, clearly without reading my original Hannah post, wrote a post fretting over the effect on small, indie films of “inexperienced” bloggers who “might not be qualified” to write about film. This was then picked up again <\/a>and again <\/a>and again <\/a>by bloggers–film bloggers love to write about film blogging, you see, so it’s spreading like wildfire.<\/p>\n

So, the original blogger who started it all with his complaint that I don’t water down my posts apologized here<\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a> for making my blog a footnote in a debate about internet quacks bringing down indie film. They say any publicity is good publicity, but in this case I’d happily give up all the new visitors and disagree.<\/p>\n

As for the debate itself, or rather the fears of filmmakers that film-morons with blogs now have global power to sink their films with their incoherent rants, I think it’s a non-issue. Any blogger’s writing will quickly reveal itself to be a waste of time or not. If you are a moron maybe you’ll take a moron’s word to heart, but if that’s the case you likely aren’t going to like that indie film anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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