Have a look at this post by Steve Blow on the paper’s Metro blog. He has now read the posts on Unfair Park and here on FrontBurner about him. You know why? Because fellow columnist James Ragland alerted him to their existence. Blow says he’s a “hit-or-miss browser of the blogosphere” because he doesn’t have the time to keep up. Okay. I can see taking that stance. Fiddling around online isn’t how a real journalist ought to be spending his time. The stories happen out there, in the city. Get out from behind the screen. Spend some time with the people. Makes sense.
But it’s Wednesday. Jim Schutze made his predictions about Blow weeks ago. Then, when the prediction came true, Schutze roundly mocked Blow on Monday. I’ll buy that Blow missed all this because he was out scribbling in his notebook, away from his computer. But does Blow not have any friends or co-workers who have computers? No one sent him an e-mail saying, “Hey, dude, Schutze totally pwned you. Here’s the link”? It must be quite something to go through life that blissfully unconnected. I mean that.
You know how I came across that post by Blow on the Metro blog? A reader — someone I don’t know — sent it to me. Hours after it went up. Just because the post mentioned FrontBurner.
So does Steve Blow not have any readers? Or do none of his readers have computers? I’m still trying to wrap my head around this.
