Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 03, 2005
July 02, 2005
July 04, 2005
Transcript:
Mark: "Let me make 109 points about Bolton...." Who reads this stuff? I'm here chatting with blogger slamz88 at the tail end of the media's fascination with blogging. Slamz88, let me throw you a blog-style hardball, if I may... Slamz88: Let it fly, Mark! Mark: Isn't blogging basically for angry, semi-employed losers who are too untalented or too lazy to get real jobs in journalism? Slamz88: What?! Mark: I mean, if the market really valued what you have to say, wouldn't someone pay you for it? Slamz88: Are you kidding? Advertisers are banging down our doors! Mark: To reach whom? The fellow crackpots who haev time to respond to your posts? Slamz88: Yes! There are a lot of those "crackpots," as you call them! Millions of them! Mark: Uh-huh. So what's your favorite flavor of cat food? Slamz88: Well, Friskies makes a very tasty...what's you point?
