'His tiny Asian wife'....yesterday's Deadspin

Are you sure she's tiny and not merely duminitive?

 

Your opinion. I do think someone who slaves away at a blog for little or no money is a bit of a loser, a bit obsessive about their topic to the exclusion of having much of a life. I mean, unless they really do live the parents' basement, they must have to go earn a living. And then they must work on the blog. And they must eat. And they must sleep. And they must crap. And they must bathe -- oops, perhaps not. Doesn't seem to be much room for A LIFE.

 

The fact is, readers have always been uninterested in anything that doesn't jibe with their points of view. That's why the angry letter to the editor that ends "please cancel my subscription" is a cliche in this business.

The Internet has just given people a choice. And choice is good, even if people choose to stop reading the newspaper...which, as BG just pointed out, is NOT something most bloggers or blog readers do.

They may choose to stop BUYING the newspaper and just read it online, but as we've said in several threads around here, who can blame them?

 

If she was any tinier, she'd be infinitesimal.

 

from what i'm told, she's simply tiny ... and asian.

 

Is she gamine?

 

why do we care if she's: related, applicable, apposite, appropriate, fitting, apt, suited?

 

You're entitled to your opinion.

 

Is she a blogger?[/tyingthreadstogether]

 

I wouldn't wait up for that.

 

Here is a question that's kind of related to this debate, but not really: What would you do as an editor if you had a writer like Shaughnessey turn in this piece? Let's say he turns it in at 2 p.m., and it's slotted to run in the next day's paper (that's pretty generous, but let's say DS banged it out early). This piece was clearly not good. Not funny at all, and while not particularly offensive, it resorts to a lot of tired cliches. Could you tell someone like Shaughnessey, 'Look, this blows. Re-write it, and if you can't, we'll hold it a day or two until it's funny.'

I think this happens very rarely. Especially with someone who has been with the paper for as long as DS. At some point, you kind of have to trust your writers to know their limitations, and if humor isn't their strength, they have to know they shouldn't try this kind of thing. But most people are too worried about bruising egos to really step up and say that.

I think blogs have, in some respects, changed the standards for what I find funny when I read about sports. Newspapers rarely make me laugh anymore, because a lot of it is tired, lame shit like this column. But at the same time, bloggers need to realize that you can't say the kind of stuff in a newspaper that you can say in a blog. I think Kissing Suzy Kolber is laugh out loud hilarious, but something like this Grossman post...

http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2006/11/f-k-it-im-throwing-it-downfield.html

...could never, ever appear in a newspaper.

More and more, I listen to newspaper editors who say they want to get in on the buzz and the cleverness that blogs offer, but then anything slightly edgy or mildly offensive, they immediately shoot down. I don't know that you can have it both ways. And bloggers need to stop bitching about how boring newspaper are because they won't write about which female tennis players have the best tits.

In closing, I have no idea what my original point was.

 

That link is one of the funniest things I have ever read ... blog or no blog. I think I just shit my pants.