Nick Denton of the Guardian
Nick Denton of the Guardian on weblogs
Only through the human stories of escape or loss have I really felt the disaster. And some of the best eyewitness accounts and personal diaries of the aftermath have been published on weblogs. These stories, some laced with anecdotes of drunken binges and random flings, have a rude honesty that does not make its way through the mainstream media’s good-taste filter. Another quality of weblogs that I appreciate: the feeling of author and reader together, equally ignorant, on a web journey of discovery. There is nothing worse than an ignorant Sky News anchor asking scripted questions designed to shore up their credibility. I like the tone of modest inquiry that the best of the bloggers adopt. I enjoy the rants, although the mainstream media has not been short of these. Ken Layne has been on particularly good form: “We can be greedy, dumb and sloppy. But we made the nation that is the defining nation of this world. There’s a reason our crappy movies and pop songs are worshipped in every corner of the world: everybody wants to be in this country, with their whole lives wide open.” Lovely.
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