EXCLUSIVE: MEDIA TYPES HATE BLOGGERS

However, bloggers, with few exceptions, don't add reporting to the personal views they post online, and they see journalism as bound by norms and standards that they reject. That encourages these common attributes of the blogosphere: vulgarity, scorching insults, bitter denunciations, one-sided arguments, erroneous assertions and the array of qualities that might be expected from a blustering know-it-all in a bar.

These are the words of Alex S. Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and not to be confused with this Alex Jones. They were published in the prestigious print media and can be read online here. This is also another example of establishment media types who are jealous of bloggers that are being invited to blog the national conventions.

Later Alex S. Jones writes:

Blogging is especially amenable to introducing negative information into the news stream and for circulating rumors as fact. Blogging's fact-checking apparatus is just the built-in truth squad of those who read the blog and howl loudly if they wish to dispute some assertion. It is, in a sense, a place where everyone has his own truth.

Oh Alex, you ignorant skank, you are so naive. You have an impressive resume, but you still don't know shit.

Everything you know is wrong! I bet they didn't teach you that in school, did they? You're living in a play land, Alex.

Tell me, what color is the sky in your world?

You need to wake the fuck up and open your eyes, assbutt.

Next up, we have Peter Johnson (which is one of those names that's kinda like Dick McCock or Rod Sausage) who writes in the USA Today about a journalism prof by the name of Tim McPhail:

That bloggers get front seats bothers Tom McPhail, a journalism professor at the University of Missouri.

''They're certainly not committed to being objective. They thrive on rumor and innuendo,'' McPhail says. Bloggers ''should be put in a different category, like 'pretend' journalists.''

Ooooooh. Pretend journalists. Little Tommy McPhail who teaches "journalism" at Mizzou (go Tigers!) says we are pretend journalists. Well, why don't you just pretend like bloggers don't exist, fuckhat! I'm gonna pretend like I'm kicking your ass!