Customers behaving badly

DC Bachelor’s DCist missive
DC Bachelor

DC Bachelor calls DCist a generic, boring regurgitation of stuff found elsewhere. It’s a routine, boilerplate argument often made by those who accuse bloggers as being parasitic and dependent on MSM (Mainstream Media). Perhaps DC Bachelor views MSM as his Kingdom of Heaven.

As a general rule, critiques are good things because they can stir debate and self-assessment. But DC Bachelor steps over the line with a gratuitous attack on DCist scribes, whom he describes as “unemployable writers” that “whore out a lame trend (blogs) to make a buck.”

To show how clever he is, DC Bachelor “crafted an e-mail” (most people write emails, DC Bachelor crafts his), and sent it to DCist writers: "I am a daily DCist reader from Maryland and have a question for you. How did you get the writing gig at DCist? …" This email was also specially designed to give DCist staff members “a lot of room to come back with some personality,” writes DC Bachelor.

Were the DCist staffers who courteously responded aware, DC Bachelor, that you intended to post excerpts of their responses? Did you ask their permission to do so? Or are “unemployable writers” who “whore out” deserving of whatever fate DC Bachelor delivers?

But DC Bachelor reminds us at the end of his narcissistic missive that he walks the high moral ground.

For hit-thirsty DC bloggers, no site owner would be stupid enough criticize a site that gets 5,000 page views a day of a local audience. But I, ladies and gentlemen, am that stupid. I won’t sell out for hits or money because thankfully I have this thing called a job.

Commenting on DC Bachelor’s post is DCeiver.

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Customers behaving badly
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