tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911949.post4891099430743035054..comments2009-01-07T23:28:02.218-05:00kzfonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00729842111210041339kzfone@gmail.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9911949.post-77582839261995047652009-01-07T22:57:00.000-05:002009-01-07T22:57:00.000-05:00I read Poole's piece in the Columbia Journalism Review and immediately thought of the Jason Whitlock piece you referred to the other day. Whitlock was happy to aim and fire at his target; the shoot-first-and-don't-even-ask-questions route. Yet, it seemed that without denigrating or deifying the blogosphere, Poole was trying to tell readers that newspapers have to save themselves from... themselves, not bloggers.<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed what Poole had to say, yet I wondered why those who represent the traditional world point to the negative tones of many blogs without looking in the mirror with a historical context. It doesn't excuse some of the vitrol that we see in the blogosphere, but I recall reading some work from the famed early 20th-century author Jack London, in which he called for someone to take out Jack Johnson <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London#Racial_views" REL="nofollow">"for the white race"</A>.Jason Clinkscaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100315288752472586noreply@blogger.com