Make the citizens the stars
: Anil’s right: It’s smart of The Times to quote so many weblog comments in this story.
(Silly style nitpik: Why is The Times style Web log sted weblog? Catch up, folks.)
3 responses to “Make the citizens the stars”
-
Why? Because if the Times’ style followed other newspapers, then the Times would be like other people. Style quirks like that are how the Times copy desk maintains it’s air of uniqueness.
-
I have to say I’m more conflicted than you… Just googling for terms and pasting in blog comments (a commenter on gothamist is quoted without even being named; couldn’t they have tracked the person down?) seems like awfully lazy journalism to me.
-
re blog style: usage usually evolves from two words to hyphenated to one word. Newspapers still call them Web sites, so that extrapolates to “Web logs.”
I think you can safely say that the blog phenomenon will be officially over when the Times stylebook switches to “weblog.” (Blogs’ll still be here but the phenomenon stage will be past).
