Pulitzer Prizes awarded

In some blogging circles this announcement of the Pulitzer Prize will set off a firestorm of criticism of the "MSM." In fact, to get cred, I was going to title this post something really clever like "Heh" or "MSM Masturbation." And then I was going to set up some strawman about bloggers being journalists. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

I've been thinking for a while that all this belly button gazing by bloggers is a bit much. Do people actually think that when they started radio that early adopters spent all their time focused on the telegraph crowd? Or that the first drivers of cars spent all their time worrying about the supposed injustices perpetrated by horse riders? Or that Jack Parr, Red Skelton, and Milton Berle spent all their early TV time worrying about the radio "MSM"? Hardly.

It seems so juvenile to keep focusing on the "MSM," or media bias, or whatever. Maybe the kids could learn a thing or two from the progenitors. The way to really get accepted isn't to spend time complaining about not being at the grown-up table. Every once in a while it might behoove the kids to act mature and stop whining. If you want to be a professional, be one. Complaining about others who are doesn't make you one.

BTW: Congratulations to the Pulitzer winners. Maybe one day a blog journalist will be on the dais.