Valleywag
For the second time this week, the usually limp-wristed San Francisco Chronicle has splashed its front page with a story about the evils of the blogosphere. On Sunday, the newspaper — the Chronic-al, as it's sometimes known — slammed the nasty citizen reviewers of Yelp for daring to enter the temple of authoritative restaurant criticism. Today's paper, only three days after the story broke, considers the death threats against Kathy Sierra, the marketing guru. "Blogs and online communities were supposed to herald an era in which "the wisdom of crowds" guided online behavior to a higher plane. Instead, instances of mob rule appear to be leading the discussion into the sewer." Harsh! This tirade couldn't have had anything to do with the leak to the blogs of the Chronicle's despairing emergency staff meeting, could it? The Chronicle's been struggling with questions about its future since Phil Bronstein, the newspaper's star-fucking editor, warned journalists that the news business was "broken" — and a mob of badly-behaved sewer-loving bloggers grabbed onto the story.
Chronicle v. the blog mob
For the second time this week, the usually limp-wristed San Francisco Chronicle has splashed its front page with a story about the evils of the blogosphere. On Sunday, the newspaper — the Chronic-al, as it's sometimes known — slammed the nasty citizen reviewers of Yelp for daring to enter the temple of authoritative restaurant criticism. Today's paper, only three days after the story broke, considers the death threats against Kathy Sierra, the marketing guru. "Blogs and online communities were supposed to herald an era in which "the wisdom of crowds" guided online behavior to a higher plane. Instead, instances of mob rule appear to be leading the discussion into the sewer." Harsh! This tirade couldn't have had anything to do with the leak to the blogs of the Chronicle's despairing emergency staff meeting, could it? The Chronicle's been struggling with questions about its future since Phil Bronstein, the newspaper's star-fucking editor, warned journalists that the news business was "broken" — and a mob of badly-behaved sewer-loving bloggers grabbed onto the story.
10:42 AM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Nick Denton
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