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The Feagler Award (NOT originated by me)


I have nothing to do with this new competition (scroll down a bit). It turned up during my Technorati search on “feagler” which I conducted because I wanted to see how far afield Mr. Feagler’s 12/11/05 column has gone. I can understand why someone would suggest this competition, in jest, but along the theme of this letter I wrote about the column, the competition idea is also unnecessarily mean. (I’ve always hated the proliferation of mean, even before I was a parent, but especially now because I am a parent.)

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:35 am December 12th, 2005 in Politics 

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5 Responses to “The Feagler Award (NOT originated by me)”

  1. 1 Tina on December 12th, 2005 12:27 pm

    I absolutely love this idea. Of course, this is the result of Feagler’s mean-spirited writing: more mean-spirited writing. Not that I disagree with the statement that Feagler’s commentary on blogging was ill-informed, but I think that the contest just shows what happens when you get mean and insult so many writers who will, inevitably, write back.

    Thanks for the link!

  2. 2 StealthBadger on December 12th, 2005 12:39 pm

    This is at the roots of what annoys me about people bashing Wikipedia. Given the horrible errors that the more conventional “knowledge industries” have allowed to flourish, I think annoying the hell out of rich people is a forgiveable sin… and indeed it was corrected.

  3. 3 Jill on December 12th, 2005 1:26 pm

    Tina, My point exactly. One individual has been trying to persuade me that Mr. Feagler’s use of meanness shouldn’t be taken so personally, but I have to say, I really think he lodged a full metal jacket required assault on bloggers, totally unprovoked by anyone at least that I can see in the NEO blogosphere.

    Spewing meanness spawns meanness. Simple, and sad.

    Thanks for reading and commenting.

  4. 4 Jill on December 12th, 2005 1:29 pm

    StealthBadger – I agree with what you say also.

    I’m surprised no one has compared whether to trust blogs to whether you trust what you hear on The Daily Show. Sure, lines are being blurred, but why do we continue to give people and their brains so little credit? (Don’t answer that – in a country led by you know how…ugh – ok, nevermind, but you know what I mean.)

  5. 5 Mike on December 12th, 2005 4:14 pm

    who broke “memogate” last year? the press – haha…

    to be sure there are reliability issues re:blogs/wikis etc… but there are also more folks out there keeping everyone honest…

    if there is a factual error in a published book or paper – how is it corrected – compare that to wikipedia – where it gets set right….

    feagler’s article focuses on some exaggerated aspects of blogs – why not evaluate the content of newspapers by examining the world weekly news or something

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