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DOWN WITH WEBLOGS

In a debunking piece in The Wall St Journal, Joseph Epstein - one of my favourite critics - warns against the time-wasting properties of the blogosphere:

"Well to remember that the French word blague, pronounced the same as blog, means to talk chaff, to hoax, to humbug."

Terence Blacker, another of my faves (and, like JE, subscriber-only) has reservations too. He's worried that on-line writers are impersonating journalists:

"There was a time when the worst, most stinging insult was to be called an amateur..."

I was going to get my own back on Epstein by observing, in as Olympian a manner as possible, that he had misspelt "gramophone" further down in his piece. A few minutes later, Google informed me that "gramaphone" is in circulation as well. So I sat and pondered what to do next....

Damn. I think I just made his point for him.

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