@ Max: would be interesting to find out how many enraged bloggers actually read the paper-article or the electronic version, as it is posted on his blog as well – but ok, he remains a journalist paid by traditional media.

And sure, he created a stir – not because of the media and its message, but rather because of the immature reaction of many bloggers…

The story again is just a demonstration of the power of ATTENTION - those who command the greatest audiences have the most power.
I doubt whether most people had the powers of concentration or time to read all of this, because I haven’t earned the right to commandeer that much of your precious time yet. Bullard has : it’s instructive.

And clearly for all we say about traditional media tumbling into obscurity through irrelevance – if nothing else this was a decisive victory in THEIR defense. As appallingly ill-researched or inflamatory we may believe it to be.. it did the job

I’ve been amazed at how defensive the bloggers have been and how they have reacted, especially some of the good bloggers.

Columnists are supposed to be shit stirrers, that is how they get and keep audiences – readers love to hate them. That’s just how it works.

Question – why do people feel the need to defend their opinions and/or hobbies so vehemently? Who cares what anyone says – blog if you want to. If you ain’t breaking the law go for it. If you are breaking the law – don’t get caught.

Last week, Donn Edwards (http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/04/sunday-times-has-bad-hair-day.html – last ) ranted about this ST article on blogging: http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=444638

That ST article was such a joke, I commented on it on Donn’s blog – until this very moment I haven’t seen any other blogger in SA ranting about it nor its ‘author’ – was it too pathetic, not worth any reaction?

Or has Bullard just some more readers and clout? Particularly if he throws in some absurd accusations, wild guesses and junta proposals?

Obviously Sunday Times is on a mission – for a good reason – printed media are not exactly the most booming industry now that every clown, couch-potato and soccer-mom writes about the weather, hemorrhoids and the toddler taking its first steps.

So yes, David and his fellow ‘drivelers’ are Digg-ing – deeper their own graves, that is, as their poorly researched articles are not objective nor informative one bit.

But then, I doubt the regular ST reader understood one byte of what he wrote about in the first place, so it was mainly an in-crowd affair – sorry gullible bloggers, 0.5 – 0 for Bullard so far – time for revenge!

The last time I was so intrigued on reading different angles on a single topic was when I stumbled on the murder trial transcripts of JonBenet Ramsay. (a fantastic read if you have the patience to trawl the internet, or you couldjust buy the book
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