The BBC's website has nearly 100 blogs and invites its readers to "have your say" on an enormous range of topics, from Westminster to the weather.
But one of the corporation's most familiar faces, Andrew Marr, has dismissed bloggers as "inadequate, pimpled and single", and citizen journalism as the "spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night". ...
"A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people," he told the Cheltenham Literary Festival. "OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk".
"But the so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night."
This is Marr:
He is nothing like his insulting description of bloggers. He has his own apartment, for one thing. And he has hair. Well, given his insult I'm sure that he has hair above the photo cropping at his mid-forehead level.
James Bond, he ain't. Or perhaps the ladies are a better judge of these things than I, I'll admit.
And I'll put up anything I've written--rant or not (as if a "rant" is automatically bad!)--after a few beers against his stuff.
