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< fafblog.blogspot.com/2004_07_25_fafblog_archive.html#109102674245058489 > Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Fafblog: THE WOLF BLITZER INTERVIEW Here at the convention there isn't that much to do right now other than eat tiny quiches an finger sammiches an hang out at panels drinkin wine but we're still havin an ok time with that. Me an Giblets have been hangin out at such panels as "Blogging: Transforming the Medium of Media" an "Blogging: A Radical New Media of Blogging" an "Blogging: Blog Media Bloggity Blog Media Bla-blog" where we have lent our expert advice to confused broadcast journalists whose minds are dazzled by the oh so confusin world of computer wizardry. It was here that me an Gibs were interviewed by Wolf Blitzer so that he might better understand the Heady An Complicated Emergent Phenomenon of Blog Journalism. WOLF BLITZER: So, Fafnir and Giblets, what IS a blog? FAFNIR: Blogs are the future Wolf. GIBLETS: Yes! They are MADE of the future! We extract the future's pure temporal essence an squeeze it into cables an modems an T3 lines it becomes a blog! F: A blog... of the future. WB: How much thought goes into your "web blog" "posts"? F: Oh we do not think at all when we post! That would defeat the entire purpose! G: Blogs must be spontaneous intant reactions to the lightning events of the everyday! Giblets fires up a random news article, pounds his head against the keyboard several times, an hits the "publish" button for the purest of pure blog posts! F: Otherwise you are not truly flowin in the electric consciousness Wolf. WB: Do you think blogs are transforming the discourse in America, and if so how so? F: Oh they definitely are Wolf. There is not much that can resist our transformin internet power. G: We are MADE of the internet. We course with its febrile energy! F: An we will make the discourse faster because blogs are faster. When someone starts talkin bout somethin that just happened five minutes ago someone else will say "oh I already heard about that yesterday, borin" an they will drop it cuz it's borin. G: When someone starts talkin bout somethin else they will change subject not in the middle of the sentence, but before the other sentence was actually spoken. F: It will be just that fast. WB: Fascinating. Now, blogs just don't do the kind of rigorous fact-checking and editorial work that we do here in the mainstream media... F: That's very true. Not like you have at CNN or MSNBC or Fox! G: Some days we sit around thinkin "Oh man if only we could maintain the journalistic rigor of Robert Novak or Charles Krauthammer or Brit Hume!" F: Or Judith Miller or Chris Matthews or CNN's Bill Schneider! G: But then we would lose our cuttin-edge appeal Wolf Blitzer. Our cuttin-edge appeal. WB: But given that bloggers might be biased, or play "fast and loose with the truth," and given the increased importance of blogs today, should Americans be concerned? F: Yes they should be very concerned. We are an unchained force of nature Wolf Blitzer! You cannot stop us once we spin out of telecommunicontrol! G: Bow before the power of blog Wolf Blitzer! Bow before the power of blog NOOOOOOW! WB: But that means the mainstream media would be defenseless before an onslaught of raw unfiltered opinion and skewed news! F: It could lead to... a blogpocalypse. G: A rain of electronic fire and doom upon all mankind! F: An the mainstream press would be helpless to stop it. G: Heeeeellllpleeeessss! BOWBEFOREGIBLETS! WB: Amazing. Thank you so much for your time, Fafnir and Giblets. F: Thank you, Wolf. Can we interview you now? WB: Sorry, I already have an interview with Tim Russert scheduled. F&G: Awwwwwwwww. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net