Wired News: Editorial Buffonery

Thanks Kevin.... arghhhh! (You were right about the blood boiling. I thought this crap was done with the 'autofocus is cheating' foolishness 20 years ago.)

Hey Wired guys... Here's a word of the day for you. It may be a good word to think about in these trying days for journalism. Credibility. You know... so that your readers don't think that morons are at the helm.

This is just another example of how the MSM is getting hammered. To say that this guy lacks critical thinking skills is simply a 'duh'. Look, quite possibly he is a victim of the public unschooling, but this goes so far into the land of absurdity that pointing out that he wrote his article in an air conditioned office, wearing good clothes on a word processor, with editing hints and spell check, with a CMS, for a web based magazine on the inter-freakin-net instead of sitting in a shack using a mud-dipped pen and a piece of papyrus.... OMG... he is an EDITOR? AT WIRED?

Attention Wired: Fire the morons among you. The holes in this guys story are given lots of light in the comments below it, but what I want to take a shot at is sloppy logic, uncritical thinking and 'elitist blathering.' My freshman daughter saw the inconsistency immediately when she said..."Well, why isn't he using a typewriter?" (Yes... I have one... looks cool and 'arty' in the office.) Can you read this drivel and not wonder if he had anyone else in the newsroom look it over and ask a hard question or two... like...

• Are you aware that technolgy changes, new art forms arise with the technology... uhh, you know... like, uh, electric guitars, stereo, automob i l e s... helloooooo???? anyone home in there?
  
• are acrylic painters less important than those who paint with oil?
• typewriters with 'repair' feature eliminated 'real' typists who had to do it right the first time
• Photographers who shot b&w and developed it themselves were 'superior' to photographers who shot transparency film and had a lab develop it? Jay Maisel aint gonna like that.
• Unless I 'do it by hand', it isn't good art. Got it. So stravinsky shouldn't have had to hire all those musicians to play his music, he should have damn well played it all himself... and as far as having another symphony play it... What's up with that... they ought to get their own music... wait a minute... we are in a quandry now...
• Mathmeticians who use calculators and computers aren't really mathemeticians. Lazy shirkers.

Do you see where lazy thinking takes us? Critical thinking is becoming a lost art. But at Wired? Good grief.

Wired News: Art Does Not Apologize: "In other words, it was hands-on. It required some honest sweat. It required time. When you were finished, and assuming you had done sterling work, you had produced a piece of art.

Which is why it's so hard for me to work up any passion for digital photography.

The advantages of digital are plain enough: easier storage, the ability to upload photos straight to the computer, no need for film, being able to take a mulligan on images you don't want to keep and, if results are all you require, no need for screwing around in a darkroom. Digital makes sense for the photojournalist, where mobility and simplicity are key, and it's useful for taking those casual snapshots of besotted friends down at the neighborhood local."