Wednesday, March 09, 2005

PowerB-linded

PowerB-linded - A blog who believes that every story is about them and whom, when the story is about them, believes they did not get enough attention.

Example:

This morning the Minneapolis Star Tribune observes the occasion of Dan Rather's retirement with an article about blogs: "In new era of reporting, blogs take a seat at the media table." The article is by Eric Black, one of the Star Tribune's best general reporters, but the article is almost unbelievably lame.

We're only six paragraphs into the story before the focus is on -- what else? -- the Star Tribune:
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We've regularly devoted ourselves to criticism of the Star Tribune over the past three years. And we've actually -- not hypothetically -- been personally attacked -- mugged -- both on the news and editorial pages of the Star Tribune in the past six months, but Black doesn't get around to mentioning that, which might provide a fuller context for his discussion of the "bloggish" tactic of "swarming."

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