machine-envy

Well, not quite. But this week’s New Statesman column is a response to a post Guido Fawkes wrote criticising openDemocracy after the New Media Awards last week (which we won, by the way). I admit it was a bit mean of me to pull him up on his misspelling of smorgasbord:

“When I was a little girl, I dreamed of having my own column. At 27, I appear to have fulfilled my ambition. Unfortunately for my sense of self-achievement, the whole bloody world is now a columnist. Volunteering an opinion on the issues of the day is as easy as setting up an account with one of the many blogging service providers. More often than not, these new voices ape the worst of those in the national press, generalising from trifles, affecting an air of self-importance that barely conceals the poor levels of research, compromised upon to file on time and…”

Read the rest here.

Guido’s original post is here.