UMSL Blog vs. Mainstream Media Editor

UMSL Blog vs. Mainstream Media Editor

David Sheets asked me to be his Facebook friend. I had no idea why until I started getting his feed. He works for the Post Dispatch and writes a blog called "The Game Guy". I have never read his blog, but his feed was interesting although a bit quirky. He always wrote in third person, for example, "David Sheets feels like a hammer and everything he sees looks like nails." No kidding. At first I thought he invited me because of the blog or mutual friends. I think he invites everyone he can to promote his blog and his feed, and the Cardinals, and the Post, and his important "associations".

His posts were mostly topical and amusing, when the weren't blatant pro sports and mainstream media shout outs, and I commented frequently. But I started, little by little, responding to posts about the Cardinals and the mainstream media with jabs, then thrusts, then direct attacks! Ya, that's how we roll.

Now he kicked me off his feed. Oh noes! It must have been this response to his post about the internet. I said, "the beauty of the internet is that it is allowing people to throw off the shackles of corporation owned mainstream media, who when not manufacturing opinion and consent, are distracting and dumbing down the masses." I don't think he liked that. Or maybe it was my response to his whine about extra inning cardinal games, "anything the Cardinals do whether it be swinging a bat, signing an autograph, spitting, grabbing their nuts, or breaking wind...it is for one thing, MONEY!" He didn't like that either.

Mission accomplished I say sans aircraft carrier. Because a modern day citizen journalist needs mainstream media friends like a pharmacist needs a snake oil salesman's business card...totally without use and a bit incriminating.