Once again I've heard a journalist celebrating some perceived 'victory' in their one-sided war against bloggers.  In this particular case it was the news that there are untold hundreds of millions of blogs which were started and then abandoned, much like this one, I guess.

I've honestly tried to work out what it is so many journalists have against the blogging phenomenon.  OK, it is fair to say that blogging is narcissistic, show-off behaviour, for people deluded enough to think that someone else might possibly want to read their pathetic thoughts, but that's what most journalism is, too!  For every brave war reporter, or battler against miscarriages of justice, or forthright defender of liberty against the state, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of not very interesting hacks plagiarising one another in the slog to produce another 500 words of drivel.

As for the argument that bloggers are illiterate know-nothings who don't have to submit their copy to the quality control that is an editor, it might be persuasive if there wasn't so much stuff published in print that might have been written by the mythical journalist Private Eye dubbed Phil Space.  And the clincher is that we don't have to pay hard cash for access to the blogosphere.

The guy this morning got me so heated about the subject that I decided to write this, despite my previous determination to let this blog rest in peace.

So here's my last word WRITTEN IN UPPER CASE JUST TO ANNOY JOURNALISTS!  MANY OF THE BEST PAID NAMES IN JOURNALISM ARE UNORIGINAL AND BANAL, AND SOME OF THEM ARE POSITIVELY CERTIFIABLE POISONERS OF THE NATIONAL CULTURE.

I feel better now.