The Mark Cuban Blog
Guys who yell at sports game from courtside seats, or, worse, owner's boxes, just aren't my type of guy. So I was surprised that I actually like Mark Cuban's Weblog. The guy is a bombastic arriviste, with a Gulfstream V and a huge, empty house. (Hope I'm not offending my Gulfstream V, huge-house-owning audience segment).
So the blogs insights into the psychology of reporters and using the new media to turn the tables is a lot of fun. I think we're going to see more of this in the future, the utilization of blogs to raise your voice louder than the media's. Old Media should definitely be concerned.
The entire journalistic superstructure of the "editorial voice" is nonsense. All reporting is biased. Whether you accept democratic gobvernments as legitimate or not is a bias, whether you believe in the rights of women or not is a bias, whether you believe private property is a right or not is bias, all of which inevitably shows through in your choice of adverbs, verbs, and adjectives.
So hiding behind this patina of objectivity has always been a rigged game, in my view. It allows a reporter to take an alleged higher moral plane and deflect proper criticism. So the concept of fisking a reporter's writing about you, and moving from defense to offense as a subject of media attention, is immensely compelling.
Let's stay tuned.
