tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post113587158630243311..comments2023-10-26T14:01:08.426+03:30Comments on Orange Tangerine: Christmas and bloody heads on sticksOrangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1136005789914946662005-12-31T08:39:00.000+03:302005-12-31T08:39:00.000+03:30Hah. Though I may blog about politics and yes, re...Hah. Though I may blog about politics and yes, rely on the media to feed the info to me, I'm not exclusively about politics 'cause every once in a while I blog about movies, Peanut, stupid people I had the pleasure of overhearing on the bus or some line somewhere...<BR/><BR/>And I was wondering when Lord of the Flies would be worked into your post. Too bad she did it badly. (She being the thenutfantastichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049788927734789585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135977800779463202005-12-31T00:53:00.000+03:302005-12-31T00:53:00.000+03:30Damn, she sounds threatened.Nice that she didn't b...Damn, she sounds threatened.<BR/><BR/>Nice that she didn't bother discerning between bloggers who give a shit about the mainstream media and those of us who DON'T.Bored Housewifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141065527386153341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135952160392208562005-12-30T17:46:00.000+03:302005-12-30T17:46:00.000+03:30If you think about it, the blogosphere is almost t...If you think about it, the blogosphere is almost the opposite of the Lord of the Flies. We're <EM>not</EM> stuck together on an island; we're all floating (relatively) anonymously in space, all over the globe. We don't have to touch or smell each other or compete for food. And we're each the boss of our own little spot. That's a big reason why I blog; to get <EM>off</EM> the island for a little DoctorMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05187502628715846144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135919323888504722005-12-30T08:38:00.000+03:302005-12-30T08:38:00.000+03:30Hey, what's wrong with Andy Rooney's curmudgeonly,...Hey, what's wrong with Andy Rooney's curmudgeonly, cute senility? It's like the Weekend at Bernie's segment of 60 Minutes. All good clean geriatric fun. The rest of us get Anderson Cooper, my granny needs someone!<BR/><BR/>Columnists that lack creativity and real insight seem to always use the Lord of the Flies analogy for everything from presidential elections to high school football. It remindsMignonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716330276288396317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135892268647422522005-12-30T01:07:00.000+03:302005-12-30T01:07:00.000+03:30tb, shhh! If the bloggers go after a Serious Journ...tb, shhh! If the bloggers go after a Serious Journalist like Andy Rooney, the mainstream media is going to ship us all off to Blogger Island. (Although if the folks there look as good as the ones on <I>Lost</I>, I could deal with a few bloody heads on sticks.)Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135889065587912792005-12-30T00:14:00.000+03:302005-12-30T00:14:00.000+03:30Who wants to go boar hunting with me? No takers? H...Who wants to go boar hunting with me? No takers? How 'bout we hunt for Andy Rooney instead. <BR/><BR/>I'm much too busy talking about myself on my blog to be worried about the media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135879138194786562005-12-29T21:28:00.000+03:302005-12-29T21:28:00.000+03:30I don't get it. Do they think the millions of blo...I don't get it. Do they think the millions of bloggers out there are all political bloggers? I hate when people who don't blog think they know what blogging is about.<BR/><BR/>Now, excuse me as I, as a man, go tell a woman whether or not she should be allowed to have an abortion.Agent 31https://www.blogger.com/profile/13328977666160004095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135878787458052832005-12-29T21:23:00.000+03:302005-12-29T21:23:00.000+03:30I'm anti-media in that I don't much care for self-...I'm anti-media in that I don't much care for self-absorbed columnists with such limited peripheral vision...Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109864.post-1135877528074963092005-12-29T21:02:00.000+03:302005-12-29T21:02:00.000+03:30The island parallel is too damn funny. Good one, t...The island parallel is too damn funny. Good one, there.<BR/><BR/>Another difference between her and most bloggers is that we're not paid to report anything. She is and the reporting should be accurate. Did she not see the feeding frenzy of the media on Dan Rather? Is she saying that was blog-driven, b/c I would say it was media-driven.<BR/><BR/>Besides, she obviously left out huge portions of theCrickethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13622985406269216862noreply@blogger.com