No, it's not Ollie Willis. It's Nancy Clark,
the porcine princess of sports reporting at the Des Moines (Iowa) Register.
Captain Ed has the details:
Nancy Clark writes a sports column for the Des Moines Register. Bloggers could be forgiven for having never heard of her, but she certainly has heard about bloggers, if yesterday's column gives any indication. She gives vent to a hilarious rant about the credibility of the Exempt Media while denigrating bloggers ... and manages to unwittingly demonstrate why the blogosphere exists in the first place.
First, one has to understand how frustrating it must feel to write a sports column in Des Moines.
Hey, everyone likes the latest High School game reports! But Nan has high hopes, I guess, and an ego to match her girth:
I'll also get in a word at Iowa's media day with Drew Tate.
The bloggers won't.
Tuesday, I'll interview Mark Farley at Northern Iowa's media day.
The bloggers won't.
Just when the reader wants to scream, "Who??", Clark says, "This isn't an exercise in name-dropping." Well, no kidding.
Apparently what is roiling ole Nan's deep waters is the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hit piece on bloggers and she's using it to prove she's ready for the bigs. Best part:
In the new "journalism of assertion," as the report calls it, information is offered with little time and little attempt to independently verify its voracity.
Freudian slip, eh Nan? Better stick to sports. In Des Moines. And
whatever happend to the good old days of Iowa Pork Princesses?
