A Weak Arguement

Tonight on the Hugh Hewitt show, I heard about this article published by The Wall Street Journal.

Aside from Mr. Rago's attempt to compensate for immaturity by using vocabulary (or a thesaurus), the problems with his article begin with his third sentence:

"The invention of the Web log, we are told, is as transformative as Gutenberg's press, and has shoved journalism into a reformation, perhaps a revolution."

--we are told

I would start by citing who holds the opposing opinion? Was it Hugh Hewitt? Well, it was an editorial, so perhaps Mr. Rago felt that wasn't necessary, but I take that as a sign of lacking seriousness.

The bottom line is that Joe Rago doesn't think that every blog out there needs to exist. I would tell Mr. Rago that you can't argue anything out of existence. All you can do is belittle it, and Mr. Rago's belittling opinion was poorly formulated. How can you graduate from Dartmouth and fail to compose a strong thesis in an article that is to be published by The Wall Street Journal!?

 Jonathan Fashbaugh replied...

Hah! Check out this response on the Riehl World View.