Apparently the people over at Newsweek.com, a publication we refer to quite a bit here on Blinkinblogs.com, posted an article recently on the who’s who of the interweb snarky bloggers world – and we failed to make the list. No surprise here really as we aren’t nearly as popular as most of the blowhards on that list, nor do we cover mindless dribble as most of them do. No, we here at BB are fans of writing about things that matter – real topics – hard hitting stuff like Geek Porn and Sarah Palin, human pit bull – not quite like the crap you might see someone like Perez Hilton go on about. What gets be about a douche bag like Perez is really two fold – he lives and breathes off the actions of famous people (who he now groups himself with somehow) and he had to give himself a name quite close to a real celebrity to gain traction. Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr made a smart move there, but for some reason it still irks me that this narcisistic man whore stole the name of a narcisistic celebrity whore. Go figure.

So who else made the list, and how did they do it? Andrew Breitbart – this is the tool bag who is so self absorbed, and has such a huge desire to break a story – thus being labeled as a real reporter instead of just a blogger like the rest of us losers, that he posted a highly editted video by some Republican Party Douche bag that lead to the ousting of one Shirley Sherrod. That story alone leads us down a path that the fellows of ESPN brought regarding bloggers to begin with – real reporters are supposed to dig into a source to determine validity whereas bloggers, people living totally off of opinion and editorial, do not.

Let us take a quick change of direction here for a moment based on that fact. The people listed in the Newsweek article all live and breathe bullshit. Sure, some of that bullshit is backed by sources, but as we have already covered many of their sources are also bullshit. “Real” news is supposed to be this world where reporters dig for a story, they talk to people in dark alleys, they pay people for the scoop, and they are supposed to find out if said source is worth a crap. The real tragedy here is that this has, in my opinion, deviated to say the least. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, although I have never really considered myself one – more of skeptic really, but in recent times most of these reporters have transformed into the very thing that those ESPN guys were complaining about – professional bloggers – or in more friendly terms editorialists .

So when I looked at the Newsweek.com article was I upset? Not really. Why? Because for we here at Blinkinblogs to have made that list we would have to had become more than just snarky – we’d had to have become liars and media whores – and given our rather dismal readership I can guarantee you that has not happened.

Where did I put that high horse?