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Isn't that like Bozo the Clown criticizing Ronald McDonald?
07/29/09
heh, see what I did there? Wow, me, Jarvis, and Anderson - visionaries for the new age.
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07/29/09
@Ken Green: But what's your beef with the Germs, son?
07/30/09
"Vat is zis news zat you speak of? Ve speak za new language, von vich destroys und constructs a new media..."
All existentially and shit...
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07/29/09
I've said it before: if "media" becomes something people do in their free time rather than as part of a job, then the people with the most free time--the idle rich--win everything. HuffPo will show us the way!
07/29/09
Not to worry, it's Free.
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07/29/09
My fave bold, awesome FUCKING LIE contained therein:
"We've tried paying some of our bloggers and they thought it was insulting."
@Gawker: Please duly note I will NEVER be insulted if you try to pay me.
The Germ interviewer also asks him how come Free isn't free? HAHAHA.
07/29/09
1-say to you, "hey, I'm just not into this today, let's reschedule/cancel, sorry for your time wasted"
or
2-act batshit crazy, talk to their armpit, ask you questions about your first homosexual encounter, or claim to be inventing a new terminology for media, that they will only speak in that new terminology, and they will not tell you any of the new terms, thereby effective ending the interview, and still wasting your time?
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If Anderson really wants to talk beyond the current vernacular, I know there are folks at Harvard working on a new lexicon for this shit (formerly known as journalism). The reality here is that he is being both pompous AND lazy.
07/29/09
07/29/09
The problem, as Malcom Gladwell pointed out in his New Yorker takedown of Andersen's "free economy", is when underneath all the clumsy prose is just a bullshit idea (ironically, gladwell is pretty much the example of a person who did what Andersen is trying to do, but did it well and successfully because he wasn't entirely full of shit).
The more Andersen gives interviews like this, the worse and worse his reputation is going to get among real thinkers, and the better it's going to get among idiots. Although given Thomas Friedman's success, I guess you can conclude that America loves a professional idiot.
07/29/09