{"id":1130,"date":"2007-03-10T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2007-04-12T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T04:14:36","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-weblogger-and-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1130\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-weblogger-and-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a weblogger and the press?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right. Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other day I was on the phone with Jessica Swesey from Inman News and 17 bigfoot real estate webloggers. We were discussing the plans for the Bloggers Connect event at this summer’s Inman Connect. Someone suggested that a panel could address how bloggers can come to be treated as “press.”<\/p>\n

To which my instant reaction was, “Ew!”<\/p>\n

I really like Jessica Swesey, but, to me, “media” or “press” or especially “mainstream media” suggest the worst kind of teacher’s pet, hall monitor, establishment toadyism. Support the blood drive! Adopt a puppy! Come to the Ladies Auxiliary Bake Sale! It’s not the intense fascination with bad news that riles me as much as the plastic-smiled saccharine boosterism. I am least comfortable when I don’t know if I am being lied to. When I lend my mind to the “press,” I feel like I am being lied to in one way or another most of the time.<\/p>\n

This is exactly<\/i> what weblogging evolved to eliminate. Love him or hate him, Charles Johnson<\/a> is never trying to hustle you or pander to you. Webloggers say exactly what they mean, and they document every controversy with copious links. Doubt me? Please do! Here’s how you can find out everything I know, with links at each stop to further amend your knowledge. You will die<\/i> trying to pursue all the links, but — unlike all the preening Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. 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