It encompasses everything from reporting to humor, from analysis to aggregation, from live commentary to finding attractive female athletes. None of these are anything the establishment hasn't done before with, like blogging, varying degrees of success.
I hadn't really looked at it this way before and at first I didn't completely agree. And then I thought of Anna Kournikova. The MSM made her famous, they showed her matches on tv, the put her in their magazines, they reported on her often. And why? Same reason DS posts the hot chick stories, because men like to look at hot chicks. Is there really a difference between Anna and pictures of Allison Stokke? Not so much.
This is something that I definitely feel is an important battle for a blogger to wage, and you can all read about it in my upcoming article in Vanity Fair.
07/19/09
07/19/09
I hadn't really looked at it this way before and at first I didn't completely agree. And then I thought of Anna Kournikova. The MSM made her famous, they showed her matches on tv, the put her in their magazines, they reported on her often. And why? Same reason DS posts the hot chick stories, because men like to look at hot chicks. Is there really a difference between Anna and pictures of Allison Stokke? Not so much.
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When it's ajar.
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