NYT ed on the bloggers
The Times sounds threatened by us. Or jaded by their own profession.
We do wonder whether a blogger’s buccaneer self-image will suffer from
having to wear a garish credential necklace just to watch
conventioneers as they mainly say, “Nice to see you!” to each other.
Will bloggers be tamed into centrism? Or, like Mencken, will they
gleefully report that the convention’s main speechmakers are “plainly
on furlough from some home for extinct volcanoes”? Log on to find out.
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