It's High School All the Way Down
High school never ended. It's all still popularity contests, "I like you. Do you like me?," and sports.
"You got to remember that Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, and while we like them, they're hideously insecure. Keith Olbermann's got an audience of a couple hundred thousand people or even let's say it's a million, let's be idiotically generous. I mean there's no impact. I mean they get mentioned in the Huffington Post and Tom Shales gives them a shout once and awhile, and that's it. They have no impact." -- Don Imus (found on Mediabistro)
Politics. News. The PTO. All high school. And it's the same in the blog world. Too many are concerned with popularity. They worry about which table they'll be able to use at lunch. They worry about making the A-Lists, and B-Lists, and Z-Lists.
I'm still the kid sitting under the tree laughing with friends.
