Posted by OMDQ

The Big Lead posted an item this morning about Detroit News columnist Chris McCoskey, who delivered an anti-blog rant on the newspaper's web site earlier today.

I don't have a fancy journalism degree to my credit, but as someone with a reasonably good grasp on the English language, I feel qualified to offer Chris some advice: if you're going to say this - "Journalism employs trained professionals. We actually have to go to school for this stuff. We take our jobs seriously." - try to get with the web design people and make sure this doesn't happen on the very same page:*

I don't care how silly some bloggers are getting over Zumaya's most recent injury - none have gone so far as to suggest that he messed up his shoulder while floating on the Internet. That's just craziness, Detroit News. Craziness.

That said - Joel Zumaya: if you do indeed know how to "float on the Internet" - whatever that may entail - you are obligated to impart your wisdom on the world.

*Yeah, this sentence featured a pretty blatant misuse of colons** and dashes. I did it to piss off Chris McCoskey.

**Typing "a pretty blatant misuse of colons" made me giggle.