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Jane And Big Media Matt Survey The Electoral Scene |
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| By: David Neiwert Saturday June 14, 2008 5:32 pm | |
Our Very Own Jane had a Bloggingheads conversation with Matthew Yglesisas of the Atlantic earlier this week. It’s pretty sedate, as conversations between two progressives tend to be, but it still makes for fascinating viewing because, as always, their insights on a pretty broad range of subjects (the campaign so far, Obama, McCain, and the media) are razor sharp. The sample at left, wherein they discuss the difference between journalists and bloggers, is especially interesting.
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Fitz for AG!
Obama is a “you guys’ er, which might be worse.
^_^
Yeah, I think I’m sorry about that. But it is not incessant. With Matt and Jane it is continuous, relentless.
I have no research but I think that non- youknow’ers are taken more seriously.
Based on this sample, I must consider Big Media Matt primus inter pares in the “Not Ready For Prime (Face) Time Bloggers.”
He has, as in the punchline, the perfect face (and glasses!) for radio.
And his voice! Oy! In tone, a spoken raga of high, nasal, herky-jerky droning. In content, a looping logorrhea, larded with “y’know,” “I mean,” the occasional “right!?,” an “um” or three, and the Jedi mind-befogging “sort of.”
Big Media Matt has trouble orally expressing a coherent thought, never mind a “razor sharp” political insight.
A full hour of this would be, to update Mark Twain, chloroform in streaming video.
Yeah, well, it’s pretty easy for me to lounge in mom’s basement with furry teeth and stinky underwear and criticize the presentation of brilliant people who are laboring tirelessly to save our country from the jackals.
The thing is I so admire and am grateful to the FDL gang (and many other libloggers) that the difference between their brilliant writing and lackadaisical oral presentations gives me a case of cognitive dissonance. Jane, Marcy, Christy did a great job with their video comments at the Libby trial, It was obvious they prepared. Josh does a usually impressive daily video. Sitting around gassing is a petri dish for growing “um you know I mean sort of” Nobody that you really enjoy listening to indulges these stalls.
Not everyone was president of the Cambridge debating society like Arianna. But if just the “um you know I mean sort ofs” were toned down it would help libloggers whup the hairdos in presentation as well as content on internet video and TeeVee.