Michelle Malkin Too Prolific?
Blogger and UNC law prof. Eric Muller cries foul against Michelle Malkin, claiming she's just too damn prolific to -- as he says she claims -- author every word at her site.
Malkin thanks Muller "for the back-handed compliment" and also explains why she's so prolific. It's mostly that she blogs while in the kitchen, during those times when her husband is being amorous, while she's on the toilet, when her kids are trying to tell her how their day was, etc., etc. As another neo-con once noted, "It's hard work."
It turns out, though, that the premise that undergirds this Muller/Malkin sorta tete-a-tete is false. Malkin just isn't as prolific as either she or Muller would have us believe.
For example, right now it's just after 5 p.m. So far Malkin has managed to post 2,304 words at her blog today. That's a reasonably high amount, but hardly impossible. But when we take into account how many of her own words she's posted so far at her site today, we find the total plummets to just 686 words (including headlines). That doesn't even approach the length of a short op-ed.
And while I know it takes a good deal of time to cycle through the news and through tipster emails -- I'm sure Malkin receives more of the latter than this very site receives visitors on any given day -- posting more than two of someone else's words for every one of your own is a) nothing any reasonable person with a full-time job can't get done in a day and b) nothing to pat one's self on the back for, at least not in any self-evident sense.
Now here's my backhanded compliment for Malkin: Michelle, you're kind of hot. And you're more wildly successful and prolific than I could ever hope to be. But you recognize -- better than do most -- that a successful blogger relies on Control + C and Control + V more than on any innate talent as a commentator.
Did I mention you're kind of hot, too?
Malkin thanks Muller "for the back-handed compliment" and also explains why she's so prolific. It's mostly that she blogs while in the kitchen, during those times when her husband is being amorous, while she's on the toilet, when her kids are trying to tell her how their day was, etc., etc. As another neo-con once noted, "It's hard work."
It turns out, though, that the premise that undergirds this Muller/Malkin sorta tete-a-tete is false. Malkin just isn't as prolific as either she or Muller would have us believe.
For example, right now it's just after 5 p.m. So far Malkin has managed to post 2,304 words at her blog today. That's a reasonably high amount, but hardly impossible. But when we take into account how many of her own words she's posted so far at her site today, we find the total plummets to just 686 words (including headlines). That doesn't even approach the length of a short op-ed.
And while I know it takes a good deal of time to cycle through the news and through tipster emails -- I'm sure Malkin receives more of the latter than this very site receives visitors on any given day -- posting more than two of someone else's words for every one of your own is a) nothing any reasonable person with a full-time job can't get done in a day and b) nothing to pat one's self on the back for, at least not in any self-evident sense.
Now here's my backhanded compliment for Malkin: Michelle, you're kind of hot. And you're more wildly successful and prolific than I could ever hope to be. But you recognize -- better than do most -- that a successful blogger relies on Control + C and Control + V more than on any innate talent as a commentator.
Did I mention you're kind of hot, too?
posted by TtP Staff @ 4/04/2006
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