Remember this summer when bloggers here -- led by the All Spin Zone's Richard Cranium -- brought the LaToyia Figueroa case to the attention of the national media? The increased publicity played a role in helping police find the body of the 24-year-old pregnant single mom from West Philly -- and arresting her alleged killer.
That was a good thing, right? "Contrarian" Noel Weyrich in Philadelphia magazine doesn't think so. He thinks bloggers "didn't help solve LaToyia's murder. But it felt good to the bloggers because the blogosphere is a great big cyberspace circle-jerk."
Read the whole piece and see if you agree with this "contrarian" viewpoint. Then read my rebuttal over at Attytood. Then toss in your own opinion on who's right.
Never liked it, doubt I ever will
Philadelphia Magazine has always been an elitist piece of toilet paper that caters to the top 10% of the city.
crapola
Never liked it either. It's a rag. A glossy rag. It caters to nothing and nobody but itself.
All Spin Zone
Richard Cranium achieved what main stream media hadn't yet done. If it wasn't for him, LaToyia's family still wouldn't have closure. He had the courage to point out to this country that something needed to be done for more than one missing woman in this country. The ultimate irony? Every single day you discover that more and more writers and reporters have started their own blogs so they can have journalistic freedom.
Just think of all the people who are going to read what Richard Cranium writes now.....when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
To paraphrase Martha, the All Spin Zone is a "good thing"
Ok, I'm a blogger - a
Ok, I'm a blogger - a sensitive one at that - but I still couldn't believe how anti-blogging the entire piece was.
For the record - I shower with somewhat regularity.
Weyrich didn't do any research for that piece of tripe
a little late but my rebuttal is here and the contrarian's view seems to run counter not only to mine, but to what Dateline noted in their "What's Missing" piece.