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As time marches on from the contentious Leitch-Bissinger showdown on HBO, more and more mainstream writers are weighing in on the matter. And, for the most part, they're not getting any more insightful. The latest comes courtesy of The Washington Post's Len Shapiro, who, while conceding that Buzz Bissinger hurt his argument with his behavior on Bob Costas' show, thinks the journalist and author should not back down from his core points: that blogs are full of filth-flarn-filth and are the end of the world as we know it. Of course, Shapiro does so while trafficking in the usual hoary cliches about bloggers (they're uninformed and their commenters are anonymous cowards) and generally displaying little familiarity with the medium he derides. More »
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