http://themoderatevoice.com/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/comment-page-1/#comment-160103 Blogs are so over... Huh? Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:42:32 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/journalism/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/#comment-160103 [...] Editor Just yesterday I pointed to Andrew Sullivan’s insightful Why I Blog in which he compares blogging to jazz and argues effectively that blogging heralds a golden age of [...] [...] Editor Just yesterday I pointed to Andrew Sullivan’s insightful Why I Blog in which he compares blogging to jazz and argues effectively that blogging heralds a golden age of [...]

]]> http://themoderatevoice.com/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/comment-page-1/#comment-160050 DLS Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:29:40 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/journalism/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/#comment-160050 Patton Guy -- you understand. The Web is simply another, newer medium. End of story. The big heads and the baggage we now see accompanying it are largely empty. Patton Guy — you understand. The Web is simply another, newer medium. End of story. The big heads and the baggage we now see accompanying it are largely empty.

]]> http://themoderatevoice.com/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/comment-page-1/#comment-160048 DLS Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:28:18 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/journalism/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/#comment-160048 False analogy. That's even if one can say there is possible or even likely sometimes a good deal of self-absorption in jazz improvization (we see a _lot_ of childish, narcissistic self-aborption and silly leftist playpen politics in the blog world). False analogy. That's even if one can say there is possible or even likely sometimes a good deal of self-absorption in jazz improvization (we see a _lot_ of childish, narcissistic self-aborption and silly leftist playpen politics in the blog world).

]]> http://themoderatevoice.com/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/comment-page-1/#comment-159918 PattonGuy Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:00:46 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/journalism/23644/andrew-sullivan-blogging-is-to-writing-as-jazz-is-to-music/#comment-159918 To continue the jazz metaphor, just because jazz became popular, didn't mean that all the other kinds of music got flushed down the toilet. By that token, just because bloggers are out there, doesn't mean newspapers should go under. Blogging can be useful, and so can print journalism. Neither of them are perfect, and they will never be perfect. To continue the jazz metaphor, just because jazz became popular, didn't mean that all the other kinds of music got flushed down the toilet. By that token, just because bloggers are out there, doesn't mean newspapers should go under. Blogging can be useful, and so can print journalism. Neither of them are perfect, and they will never be perfect.

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