This morning there appeared a horrible article in CNET about music blogs. It was filled with inaccuracies, misspellings (Lilly ?! Allen) and downright silliness. Idolator has already taken them to task but I can’t help to point out a few things as well.
First off, this quote – “we pick up the phone and bring original reporting” – by a Rolling Stone staffer about how Rolling Stone with it’s use of the common phone has blogs beat is just classic. I picture an intern or an old geezer with a typewriter, cigar and a rotary phone trying to call Man Man to get an update on the new record. Ironically the guys from Man Man have just abandoned phone use and gone all digital.
Secondly, for an article supposedly about Music Blogs its interesting to note he doesn’t speak with nary a one. None of the people he interviews writes a “real” blog in my opinion. This is not sour grapes I don’t care that he didn’t rush to my doorstep for a quote or two but I do care that he didn’t talk to StG, IGIF, MOKB, GvB etc etc. Maybe none of those guys were sitting by the phone either.
Finally, and maybe I’m wrong about this one, but the dude from Rolling stone is quoted as saying “”I wouldn’t call what they do as writing,” – is that even good grammar? If so it’s awkward at best.
P.S. This article was neither spell checked nor fact checked. And that’s part of the beauty of blogs. If RS even wanted to counteract this post it’d take `em 6weeks, a lot of phone calls (I generally don’t pick up) and a handful of interns. And we’d all be on to the next great band.