Nancy Clark update
Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 10:42AM Earlier we commented on the wild anti-blog article by the Des Moines
Register's Nancy Clark, and added links to the CFB bloggers who took
notice.
Then a host of updates followed linking to other bloggers' reactions.
It only gets worse now for Ms. Clark, because the blogging big boys are now paying attention.
See here
What Ms. Clark has apparently forgotten is that the blogosphere rose from just a bunch of people with differing opinions to media factchecker status for a reasonhere
That's InstaPundit, folks. This is no longer a low-volume hornet's nest.
More from Captain's Quarters here
Hopefully they will not hold their breath waiting for a response, because apparently Ms. Clark has her own special method of handling criticism from her readers, as CQ reader Seybernetx found out (emphasis mine):
At the risk of "pulling a Nancy", I emailed a reply to Clark's column, saying pretty much what all of you have said here.
The response?
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Your message
To: Clark, Nancy
Subject: Feeling a little pressured, are we?
Sent: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:35:03 -0500
was deleted without being read on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:09:41 -0500
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It seems that all of the effort to provide the "journalism of verification" makes it impossible for Ms. Clark to deal with its consequences
Don't hold your breath, FanBlogs and EDSBS on getting a response.
An entry from LA Times watchdog Patterico here
Plus many many more.
Like I said, if you make a broad target, you make yourself a broad target.
Which is why I'll get nailed for my SEC cash dig earlier. I know its coming. But I think many of my readers also know some of it is stirring the pot and not just some unhinged reaction to my trade's "the other", to use a sociological term.
I'm sure there's more updates to come, although most of her article has been analyzed by now. I was humored by the non-sports bloggers who had a collective "who?!" reaction to her Dan McCarney, Jason Scales, Todd Blythe and Bret Meyer name-dropping.
But things have turned a little bit now, since we have some pros stepping in like InstaPundit and Patterico. But I think this also signals the final turn for the incident unless she begins answering emails or churns out another bad article with reactive invective. Weekends tend to kill a lot of news energy and that is a benefit to Ms. Clark, perhaps saving her from a weeklong pushback from the non-exempt media. Note to self---write controversial entries later in the week, if you're feeling cynical.
CFR
Update #1
EDSBS says in their comments section that Nancy left them a message and they will get back to her.
More to come...
CFR
MGoBlog has follow-up and basically signals that this saga is nearly over.
Some good points are made. In the end, it was just some really
crappy hatchet piece, evidence to many of continued big media stupidity
but certainly not the major salvo it may be played out to be.
I personally have just had fun with it, and am protective of the CFB
blogosphere because I think we're onto something and to send unhappy
print laser beams our way was unnecessary.
In all likelihood, given the quick news cycle, and this being the
weekend, this story's dying its slow death. That is unless, as
we've said before, she starts answering emails in poor fashion or
writes another hatchet piece. Then all bets are off and we start
to get really creative with the term unhinged.
EDSBS has a good approach, call up and see what's going on.
Points to MGoBlog for noting other explanations (dog die?
menopause?). But apparently her editors were asleep at the wheel
as well since they need to be "on" even if she wasn't. Which goes
back to original issues with the big media and its inability to contain
itself instead of this constant pot/kettle/black issue with the
blogs. Its time to grow up and accept that we're here and mostly
doing a good job.
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