Another Straw Man Attack on Blogs

Courtesy of Karen Long, book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland:

Even as the National Book Critics Circle gathers signatures and stages a protest in front of the bricks-and-mortar Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a number of bloggers are borderline gleeful, ready to polish their dancing shoes for a nice tap across the graves of old mainstream media.
This, of course, is a false choice.

As much as I love The Book Babes – "Two veteran book critics who believe books are better than Botox" – this pair will never be in a position to tell you, as Kathy Englehart did two weeks ago, which children’s books to read with your kids before visiting the Monet exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art.”

In case Long is reading, here’s some blogs where you can find slightly better book analysis than that offered from the Book Babes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. (I don’t remember any of them gleefully dancing on the graves of print, either.) Needless to say, plenty more where that came from.