Marina Hyde on Blogging

I used to quite like Marina Hyde. I still find a lot of her Guardian columns witty and well-written.

But now I find (via Lloyd) this snippet from her Guardian showbusiness blog. If you read the comments you'll see exactly what she thinks about blogging.

For the benefit of those confused, I write three columns a week for what we Luddites still refer to as “the newspaper”. These are all imported onto the web, and now I will be dashing off the odd facetious gobbet of nonsense for this too. I find telling my boss they can whistle for every internet-related request they make of me very satisfying, but ultimately one has to come to heel on some front or risk a Pyrrhic victory. Ultimately, I try not to get too exercised about any of it, in case for one second I fool myself into thinking it actually matters.

So we'll file her with the list of journalists who think that blogging is beneath them. And ignore anything further she writes on the subject.