Anti-Press Express

Wow! The Plattsburgh Daily (news)Paper has discovered a newfangled thing called a web-log or a blog! It’s adding one of these doohickeys to its Web site. Here’s part of the intricate answer provided by the (news)Paper to the question, “What is a blog?”

“Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called ‘blogging.’ Individual articles on a blog are called ‘blog posts,’ ‘posts,’ or ‘entries.’ The person who makes these entries is called a ‘blogger.’”

Really.

Did you know that cutting down trees in the woods is called “logging?” The cut trees are made into things called “logs” or “posts.” A person who cuts down trees for a living is called a “logger.”

Is that pedantic enough for you?

The simplistic explanation of blogging provided by the (news)Paper indicates that the editor considers the majority of his readers to be simple people of an advanced age, oldsters dating back to the days of the buggy whip. Also, it seems the editor can’t keep pace with modern technology. Why did the explanation use such ABC sentence structure? Well, it had to be easy enough for even a gray-haired editor to understand. After all, he’s been kinda confused since transistor radios were introduced.

The poor old editor: he has no concept of what bloggers represent to traditional media, especially newspapers. Such an editor is a dinosaur dimly aware of the new critters on the scene, not realizing that mammals could be vectors of extinction.

Hey, dino, wake up! Quick little rodents are eating your eggs.