Who are the Blog People?
ALA President-elect Michael Gorman’s strange op-ed where he trashes bloggers is raising eyebrows all around the LIS community.
It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.
Gorman’s thrown down the guantlet against bloggers. One wonders just how much foresight Gorman has to put something as controversial as this down on the record, especially at the beginning of his term.