Following on from Chris Weingarten’s speech berating music blogs for wiping out good, honest journalism, here’s Something Awful suggesting that the reason blogs were able to push forward was because the music journalism in old media (such as Rolling Stone) was very often bloody awful. But any old-school inky-fingered hacks should take some comfort from the notion that blogs in turn will get theirs:
Blogs showed up because people got sick of listening to the bullshit these magazines were throwing around, and when people get tired of clicking links, watching videos, and then not saying anything about them, they’ll find something else. And by then, we’ll have the editor of Stereogum up on stage at some new Twitter conference, sputtering and pointing to his favorite videos, frowning for the loss of his glorious link-delivery system.
