Sundry Sunday

I find it so amusing that many Lieberman supporters blame the "bad bloggers" for promoting Ned Lamont’s primary run for senate.

One Connecticut Post writer insists on referring to us as blah-gers. Oh boy is he worried about his job. He needs to get a grip: bloggers are here to stay.

You have to give all bloggers credit: whether we are sharing details of our lives; our political views; even recipes – we put ourselves out there and we are unscripted, unbeholding to any one or any institution and we can write what we want to write without an editor slashing our words or thoughts or the PC police removing offending terms or ideas.

We give main stream press the “willies” because we can do many things they can’t do.

We can deliver news instantly, and tell it like we see it with nary a scalpel-wielding Cato to nip and tuck our view of the event.

We can call George Bush a moronic mofo with a messianic complex and not have to worry about our post being bowdlerized by Blogspot.

We can write fuck without being expurgated by internet, naughty-word cops.

One of the reasons I eschew TV is because of the heavy handed and stupid editing that’s done to TV material, especially movies.

I always wonder who these editors are and why they are allowed to see the movie -- naked breasts, sex scenes, filthy talk -- in its pure form, and then for the benefit of the rest of us --and after they’ve had their fill of sex, drugs and foul language – decide what we are allowed to see or hear.

How do you get that job? I want to apply.

Blogworld is the last place on earth where you can really speak your mind. I don’t know how long it will last -- if we keep listing to the right we’ll end up looking at the world with the old :-) perspective….we’ll have to turn our heads to the side to see what’s going on.

But right now it’s a gift to be free and we should all be proud that we are part of a new wave of journalists.

And just like TV could be, if you don’t like what you’re reading on a blog, you don’t ever have to go back to that blog, you can just click it off and find a blog more to your liking.

Speaking of editing, it reminds me of a story I found very funny. I was editing a magazine article about golf and we had a new assistant editor fresh out of college going over previously edited material to see how the editing process worked.

At one point she came up to me with a frown. The article she was reading was about a curse on an Ohio golf course. Because the course was built on Indian burial grounds, an Indian chief had supposedly placed a curse on the course so that any time a major tournament was to be played there, it would rain torrents in revenge.

Seven or eight people including me had gone over the story and it was tight and AOK – so why the frown I wondered.

She says: We can’t publish this. It isn’t nice.

Me: What isn’t nice?

She: His name.

Me: Who’s name?

She: Chief Leatherlips…you can’t make a slur like that in today’s world.

Me: That is his name. I didn’t name him that. We can’t change his name.

She: Well I still find it offensive.

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I wonder how she’s doing today.

If she had her way she would probably edit the prez’s name, after all bush is slang for pubic hair. There’d be no people with the last name Dick or Kuntz either.

In high school, we had two Kuntz and one Krapp….really.

Have a happy Sunday and here’s to Bloggers!