Sunday, October 18, 2009

Quote of the Day

A comment from a Balloon Juice thread:

@Brachiator:
Punditry is the journalistic equivalent to the newspaper astrology column. Punditry doesn’t have to be right, it’s just gotta be entertaining and provide comfort for those who need to believe easily digestible bullshit.

I think that's just about perfect.
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4 comments:

  1. Unknown10/19/2009 1:08 AM

    Yep, sounds about right. - providing the "easily digestible" part means its also agreeable to the reader intellectual bent (or lack thereof.)

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  2. Bob10/19/2009 3:04 PM

    Yep.

    And bloggers pretty much practice ametuer punditry.

    (Self included.)

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  3. Noah10/19/2009 7:19 PM

    bloggers pretty much practice amatuer [sic] punditry

    We do. But 1)we are not paid representatives of a professional news outlet; 2) we recognize that we are op-ed columnists of our own opinion rags with readership limited to people who mostly think like us and a few irritating contrarians.

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  4. Unknown10/19/2009 7:27 PM

    we are not paid

    Absolutely! And that makes all the difference. It allows us to speak our mind more freely.

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