The High Lonesome Pitch Of Noel Weyrich
Hot on the heels of a PhillyMag story in which Noel Weyrich gets all hot under the collar about why bloggers suck ó yawn ó Will Bunch at Attytood blasts the very poor man’s Andy Rooney right back. Weyrich’s argument? Cloaking his bitchfit in the hoopla surrounding the Latoyia Figueroa story, he (almost enviously) claims “Bloggersóunedited and unaccountableóget to run with whatever they have at hand. Dick Brain and his brethren bloggers (the Dick Brain Trust) live in a state of blissful ignorance because they are, in general, defiantly ill-informed amateurs.” Perhaps there’s something to that. Bloggers do, in fact, kind of suck. They dress poorly, they’re completely, bafflingly cocksure of their ability to affect actual change when in fact they hardly ever do, and they’re also, in general, like babies in that they’re wowed by every new gadget that comes along. But none of that is really what is on Weyrich’s mind. We used to work with him, and after a few years of interminable staff meetings where the wind would be sucked out of a room of 8 or so writers and editors by his giant colostomy bag of a mouth, we know that when it comes down to it, dude just likes to hear himself talk.
And coming from us, that’s really saying something.
Attytood: No(el) Whining
PhillyMag: And Another Thing! I Hate Junk Mail!
