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Fearing for his job in these tough economic times, Chronicle scribe C.W. Nevius tells CBS 5' Joe Vasquez that bloggers, it seems, are stupidheads. Ahem:
Bloggers do a nice job and that’s fine. But what I see bloggers doing is taking the raw material they get from news organizations like this and riffing off of it. If the bloggers didn’t have us to do the start of the work for them, I don’t know what they’d blog on. So, I’d be interested to see how that happens. They’re talking pretty big now, we’ll see where they go.
Failing to grasp the concept of blogs aside, Nevius does have a point -- an idiotic one, but a point.
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not only that he is worst columnist in the world. talk about a being as deep as birdbath. and fully half of his columns take place w/in a block of either the chronicle or his favorite bars.
so essentially he objects to the ecology of media but moreso that he thinks bloggers are lower on the foodchain.
[Cue video of insects devouring a corpse]
Can't wait til he starts blaming bloggers for taking his parking space.
CW is a tool.
Wait, Chuck Nevius is styling himself as a reporter and not a columnist?
Because what does a columnist do, if not riff off information?
what a bitch.
a. Hire me.
2. I sit on my ass all day long and read the AP news wire then create pithy commentary on the information.
c. You keep reporting local flavor and listening to the police scanner.
4. ???
e. Profit
Nevius is quickly rising up to the point where he might actually challenge Rob Anderson on my shitlist. And that is really saying something.
Is CW Nevius asian? I can never decide. Just like Rob Mayeda, is he asian, latino? I dunno.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rob-Mayeda/1208300081
The Chronicle is nothing more than a collection of press releases punctuated by the occasional column about cats. Nevius actually thinks he does work?
The Chronicle should not be in the business of harshing on bloggers...they have made so many cuts to their editorial staff and reporters and so on, they just can't report on news as much as they used to.
Plus, the Chron has had a reputation for skimming blogs for ideas for stories. That's nothing evil, since hey, people should be looking beyond their desk for ideas, but it's kind of a bit much for CW (who as far as I can tell writes a blog, only longer and on paper , riffing on current events) to harsh on bloggers (and let's face it blogs can be anything form "pictures of my cat today" to some media enterprise so it's hard to stereotype).
Ah, subtlety, something we lost at the turn of the century..
Um, why is anybody paying attention to Nevius, just because he learned the word "blogger?" The sooner people stop giving newspapers and websites a reason to hire commentators based on their ability to generate controversy the sooner CW Nevius has to go back to whatever he was doing before his kneepads wore out and his mouth turned into sandpaper.
He doesn't have a point.
"But what I see bloggers doing is taking the raw material they get from news organizations like this and riffing off of it. If the bloggers didn’t have us to do the start of the work for them, I don’t know what they’d blog on."
what? the hell??
apparently Mr Nevius has never checked out WHAT IM SEEING dot com. i carry a camera (or 3) with me everywhere i go. and i go lots of places. and talk to lots of people. and then go home and upload my original content and findings, much to the delight the few Loyal Readers that check in daily.
the above might be true for some aggregate blogs, but not for my shitty little piece of the internet.
Pffft! CW Nevius does the exact same thing a lot of bloggers do. He reads a news story and then poops out his opinion on whatever the topic might be. Oh, so he calls up a few people to get some quotes. Big deal. That requires the kind of effort that isn't. He prolly doesn't even do any of the calling. That's what interns are for. Regardless, he's hardly some kind of glamorous, hard hitting journalist.
Big words coming from a guy who ripped off SFist for his last column on AdamsBlock.com!
There is one major difference between CW Nevius and most bloggers: he gets a pay check and can therefore file his words under "work", not "hobbies"
If it wasn't for my blog and help from the Chron's Phil Bronstein (who also did a blog entry), there wouldn't have been a policy change on Muni regarding BART-Muni transfer tickets for the return trip from baseball games.
See here:
http://www.akit.org/2008/07/why-dont-they-take-muni-to-bart.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/category?blogid=47&cat=1742
That's quite an achievement. I'd put that right up there with Woodward and Bernstein breaking Watergate.
It's one of my proudest achievements fizzandpop. The little guy can make a big government agency change their ways.
While this one is my personal best, the one with the most visits is when I conglomerated all the comments about the city's hatred for the OutsideLands festival.
Can't we all just get along? I think we're all just trying to make San Franciscans aware of what's going on ... shine some light on things.
We certainly NEED our newspapers ... I subscribe to the Chronicle home delivery (wednesday through sunday at least). I don't know that I'd be without information about the RIncon Hill neighborhood if the Chronicle folded up tomorrow though ... most of my information comes by way of press releases or people who recognize me as the RIncon Hill blogger guy asking me to toss stuff up on my blog. (shrug)
I enjoy writing about the world around me, and I have enough of a curiosity to learn all that I can despite my day job being in a totally different orbit from journalism.
@fizzandpop:
It looks to me like he's a dog. Or a Christmas tree. Mystery solved!
Yes, because C.W. Obvious' column is always so incredibly researched and enlightning. If it weren't for the fact that his stuff is printed on dead trees, C.W. would be nothing more than yet another San Francisco blogger - actually, not even - I think he lives in Walnut Creek or Pleasanton.
What? I'm a blogger, and 95% of what I post is based on my own original research. There's nothing about blogging per se that forces people to post meta-news of the sort that Nevius objects to. What forces people to do that are high daily posting requirements from the publishers of blogs.
He's right, except that he seems to be confusing his little shitrag of a column with the New York Times.
two-buck-chuck?
In Nevius' defense, his editor is a mildly-retarded bitch.
Thank you, San Francisco, for 25 comments of awesome. Can we petition the Chronicle for the 2009 Annual Layoffs to begin with Nevius?
As for the Chronicle as a news source, it's really pretty damned weak. It covers San Francisco politics & issues the way Us Weekly covers the social realities of the American people.