One Jasper Gerard writes in last Sunday's Observer of the awfulness of blogs: "...to the noughties [he means the present decade-TR] what graffiti was to the Seventies: mindless scrawls reading 'I woz 'ere.' It says: 'I'm a moron, but worship me anyway.'...We are bogged down in blogland."
The rest of his page discusses, in tabloid-ese, full of irritating jingle phrases, 'bloggers are the codgers," the following important issues:
A reporter who intercepted royal voicemail and appeared in court with his flies undone
Two men charged with cruelty for overfeeding a dog
Prince William's girlfriend who has started a job
I think Mr Gerard should look for the beam in his own eye. Many blogs are trivial and silly; so are many newspapers, including some who should know better. Turning to the Review section, where one might expect something more worthwhile, the front page offers the following:
What a Colleen: how Wayne Rooney's girlfriend became an icon for the shopping generation
The tone of high seriousness is reinforced by the television reviews, which lead with "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here"", and an A-Z of Christmas presents.
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