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February 16, 2004

Once again I am apparently exceptional

I do not read Gawker or Wonkette so I can't vouch for them one way or the other.

Blogging While (Anti) Black
When websites attack! Media critic John Lee on why Gawker and Blogette have a race problem.

By John Lee

Imagine if there were a website where you could vicariously cruise the halls of power in New York and DC via deliciously campy witticisms about the gossip and gaffes that plague powerful media moguls, real estate barons, and politicos that delight the reader in ways that can only be described with overused nihilistic German words.

Enter Nick Denton. Denton, a former journalist with dot-com money, owns two website blogs called Gawker and Wonkette that serve just that purpose. Gawker and Wonkette have become the sine qua non of the New York and DC cultural elite, or at least those wishing to be a part of it. They chronicle the intricacies of the media power structure, the players and their sycophants in all their hubris. Their succinct invectives come from snippets found in established gossip columns, newspaper articles, wire copy, email tips, and an occasional instant messenger-inspired epiphany.

Denton has mapped out a route for monetizing the blog world in short order. It is a strategy to provoke outrage and publicity by taking the piss out of celebrities and luminaries of New York and DC. And I don't have any problem with that. It's just that these sites have decided that one way to telegraph their supreme coolness is to continually joke about non-whites as marginalized second-class citizens. It's this casual, damaging disregard that is hard to quantify, and yet, Gawker and Wonkette exemplify the growing phenomenon of white hipsters adopting a casual racism. Is it any wonder so many still feel blogging's a white man's sport?

Posted by P6 at February 16, 2004 10:07 AM
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Oddly enough I was checking out Wonkette earlier this morning. Counterspin Central linked to a story about how Columbia Journalism School students were researching whether AP reporter Alexandra Polier, who is a graduate of their school, is the same as the Alexandra Polier named in the Kerry scandal. This led to the blog of a Columbia student, which led to Wonkette.

Posted by Al-Muhajabah at February 16, 2004 10:33 AM

Trackback John Lee is not only from Brooklyn, he is to Brooklyn. Guess what, on this coast we don't give a shit. Somebody in the Hamptons got their panties in a twist off some obiter dicta from some NY verbal stylists...
Posted by Cobb at Feb 19, 2004 4:38 PM