I am sure that every blogger has seen it happen or even had it happen to their own blog. Come out swinging with verbal haymakers at some top tier blogger and page views go through the roof. Even better is when a bunch of well known bloggers start going at each other like they were in a cage match giving the rest of us a few days of coat-tailing and the resultant page view increases.

But where does this really get us - us being the bloggers that want to report the news or have discussions about important ideas. Where it gets us is shuffled off to the corners as everyone else acts like those folks that just have to slow down to see every bloody detail at an accident site.

And yet it is these very same bloggers who want the internet; and the world, at large to believe that they are equal to or better than the Mainstream Media they are always poking like a dead animal with their supposed journalistic superiority.

As Rick Mahn said in a post today

If you’re wondering when blogging will overtake MSM, you’ll first have to get the leading online “publications” to stop acting like 10 year old playground bullies. Until that happens, and people working on high-profile sites start acting like real professionals blogging will remain a little Gen-Y pipedream.

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