Good question from Roger Ailes:
It’s also interesting to see that the Moonie Times has placed scare quotes around “marriage” in Sully’s item on gay marriage and polling. Seriously: why does Sully allow these bigots to tamper with his work product?
As if there’s any other kind.
There’s been a ton of blog commentary on this piece by Camille Paglia, which seems somewhat overrated to me, for much the reasons Mark Liberman gives. But, as Nicole Wyatt notes, it raises an interesting question about what we’re doing when we’re blogging.
Many more such questions are raised by Geoff Nunberg’s nice FreshAir piece on Blogging – The Global Lunchroom. Geoff notes how cliquey the language bloggers use can be.
bq. The high, formal style of the newspaper op-ed page may be nobody’s native language, but at least it’s a neutral voice that doesn’t privilege the speech of any particular group or class. Whereas blogspeak is basically an adaptation of the table talk of the urban middle class — it isn’t a language that everybody in the cafeteria is equally adept at speaking.