Thanks, blogHOUSTON readers
From time to time, bloggers and other alternative media point out that newspaper editors and publishers don't always seem to have the highest regard for some of their most valuable readers.
Until today, though, I don't think I'd ever seen a case of a blogger calling out his own readers for not properly appreciating his blog.
Yet here it is, from the managing editor of the Lone Star Times:
But we’ve learned over time that some readers are just going to be so profoundly dense that unless beaten over the head, they won’t comprehend they are reading a satire. And then other folks are going to rage because they’ve been "forced" to spend a few seconds scanning an article that didn’t happen to amuse them.
Tough. The article stays, Matt will not relent, and if you don’t stop whining I’m going to tell him to no longer include the "satire warning labels" and you will be condemned to a life of despair and confusion produced by the terrible information being brought to you by LST.
Now go to work. And you might want to check behind you– you appear to have something stuck back there.
It seems more than a little mean to refer to a segment of your readership as "profoundly dense," let alone the reference to the posterior. Strange, but I don't recall Dan Patrick ever using that kind of language when urging those same readers and KSEV-700 listeners to go hit the Lone Star Times tip jar.
In any case, that little outburst over there did generate some internal discussion here at blogHOUSTON, and the consensus here was that we very much appreciate our own readers and commenters. We don't expect you to agree with everything we say (and would, frankly, be shocked if you did), but we do appreciate those who regularly check our perspective and leave your own thoughts. Thanks!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/15/05 09:15 PM | Houston Media | Print | Comments (23)
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