The Sterns, as in Howard and Jared (no relation) both discuss blogging this week and come to the conclusion that most bloggers are losers. Says Jared: "most blogs seem to be written by self-absorbed, gibbering baboons who obviously never leave the confines of their Dumbo studios." Howard reportedly said something along the lines of "blogs are websites where people tell you what happens in their lives" and he "complained that the writing on most of them is not good because it's not professional." Then they both said they read Gawker, so I'm not too upset. (I'm a blogger, so by definition, it's all about me.) I would, however, like to point out that the media industry is no better than the blog world in terms of self-absorption and navel-gazing. In case no one noticed, Al-Qaeda's been blowing things up with increasing regularity as of late, and yet, the biggest story in the media world right now is a 27-year-old New Yorker with a coke problem. Is Gawker contributing to this phenomenon? Yes, we are! And why? Because we're assuming that at some point the ridiculousness will get so ridiculous that it'll have ridiculous growing out of its ridiculous and any attempts at satirizing the media will be entirely superfluous. One dayone day!there will be no need for Gawker anymore. We're getting closer every day.
Alas, the geeks shall inherit the earth [NY Post]
Attention Howard Stern fans [Buzzmachine]