Comments on: Everything that rises must converge

By: Peanut St. Cosmo

Peanut St. Cosmo — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:42:41 +0000

fu.

By: Benjamin Light

Benjamin Light — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:27:51 +0000

who’s jake?

AppleCare doesn’t cover accidental damage.

By: Peanut St. Cosmo

Peanut St. Cosmo — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:15:35 +0000

what if you have insurance on the iphone? is it ok then?
and jack has a bomb!!!! what’s going to happen? we don’t find out till 2010! it’s 2k9! omg!

By: Benjamin Light

Benjamin Light — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:14:26 +0000

There’s an app for just about anything…

…I feel we’re all ignoring the most salient point of my post, which was that JACK HAS A BOMB!

In all seriousness, you should not strike a child with an iPhone, it might damage the phone.

By: Peanut St. Cosmo

Peanut St. Cosmo — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:13:18 +0000

there effing should be an app for that! i’ll get an iphone if they create an app for that! you can only break a child so many ways. hitting, that def does the trick, but so many bystanders disapprove and getting arrested is inconvenient. and the “there is no santa claus” truth, that doesn’t quite sting like it used to….what to do….

By: Marco Sparks

Marco Sparks — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:33:10 +0000

Do they have an app for that now?

By: Benjamin Light

Benjamin Light — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:40:24 +0000

Very true, Peanut. Hitting a small child with your iPhone just isn’t as satisfying.

By: Peanut St. Cosmo

Peanut St. Cosmo — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:23:20 +0000

jack face!!!!! yahoo is just becoming less and less credible. even going to cnn sometimes is just painful. they do, after all, employee nancy grace. now real newspapers, it’s sad to see them go. even though the ink gets your fingers dirty, they also double as a disciplining tool with small animals, and sometimes children.

By: Benjamin Light

Benjamin Light — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:22:15 +0000

Well, I didn't actually compare bloggers to real journalists because it's not fair: they aren't in the same line of work. We call the Press the Fourth Estate for a reason. Perhaps I should use the term "reporting." I know it's an unpopular position to take amongst the net-roots -- who see the "MSM" mostly through parasitic news outlets like Cable TV and Magazines with Agendas -- but information wants gatekeepers. As highly-skilled as a blogger might be at research, he or she can't fill the void that a highly-trained journalist with the backing of an editorial board can provide in terms of reporting and not reporting. "Real journalists," few of whom actually work at the organizations where most people get their news from, are the world's Bullshit Detectors. I'm aware that the idea of informational gatekeepers seems incredibly bourgeois, but the alternative is, I think, less pleasing. But I should really just let Gary Kamiya take it away.

By: Lollipop Gomez

Lollipop Gomez — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:51:34 +0000

Comparing bloggers to “real journalists” (I put this in quotes because there are bloggers who are doing much better work than mainstream press and no I do not count myself among them) isn’t fair. Working for a newsroom or magazine you have access to research, fact checkers, your work gets edited and you get paid (hopefully) something resembling a living wage.

Bloggers, for the most part, don’t have access to any of those things and are doing the job of several people while trying to update constantly to stay on top of Google because page views are how we get paid. So, the gap will be filled when someone comes around who recognizes the work we do, pays us what we’re worth and gives us help.