We are the people! We have liberal leanings! We can help make Howard Dean a frontrunner until he gets all noisy! DID I MENTION WE ARE THE PEOPLE? "The people" hate the way newspaper ink leaves smudges all over their clothing.
Being a blogger is a lot like being a journalist, if journalists were amoral and UTTERLY INSANE. Blogs dedicated towards obscure conspiracy theories get 12 million unique views (tomorrow on TheGloss "President Obama, Re-Animated Corpse? Hint: Yes."). World destroyers. That's what bloggers are. World destroyers in league with hedge fund managers. Fun side note: when someone in the movie says "blogging isn't journalism, it's graffiti with punctuation", old people chortle knowingly, perhaps because that joke targets the same audience as would one in 1903 wherein a comedian exclaimed "Model Ts are just horses for assholes!" while wearing blackface. Young people look confused, because young people have no idea what punctuation is.
No, seriously, we're all in bed with hedge funders and... hate them. We're about as likable as they are for some reason that makes no sense? Probably all the pigtails. Anyhow, we're pretty much the villains of America right now with all our "spreading information" and "liking twitter". We hate money but also, we love it more than anyone else in the whole wide world.
Bloggers also have some good stuff going for them, like an ability to eat ridiculously decadent French meals every single night and have it result in only a kicky haircut.
(Also, ladybloggers love short haircuts? Oddly I cannot think of a single ladyblogger I know with a short haircut like this. Wait! Koa. Koa, over at our sister site, Mommyish. Go there to see information being spread, the world being destroyed, Twitter continuing to exist).
Bloggers are all conspiracy theorists all the time! Just like Jude Law! Except sometimes, they're correct, like when they're exposing the fact that print journalists just make everything up, which is something... bloggers never do. Plucky underdogs.
We are the people! We have liberal leanings! We can help make Howard Dean a frontrunner until he gets all noisy! DID I MENTION WE ARE THE PEOPLE? "The people" hate the way newspaper ink leaves smudges all over their clothing.
Wait. I can't find a movie where that is the case.
Which is insane.
Because most bloggers aren't really employed to be tellers of truth, nor do they fancy themselves as such, unless they consider "their personal opinion" to be "the absolute truth". Which is fair, though it means you are probably also the kind of person who imagines God hates all the same people you do.
In real life, most professionally employed bloggers I know just thought it would be HILARIOUS to get paid a good salary to say whatever they're thinking about Paz de la Huerta that day. If we lived in the 1930's, we'd be sitting around writing quips for Jack Benny - because that's about what the job at most places entails. I mean, let's think about, say, Gawker. Of course, at this point, it's impossible to say that Gawker doesn't break stories like a traditional news outlet, but at its origin, it was primarily 'young people saying funny things about celebrities and generally trying to recreate 'Spy' magazine'. A very similar attitude surely exists in at least half the professional blogosphere (the half not in bed with hedge funders, or rather, the half in bed with hedge funders and enjoying themselves before writing about why Paz de la Huerta is wearing grey lipstick in the morning).
Also, if Kate Hudson could take on a role, that would really help out at the customs line. Pigtails are totally optional!
