Re: Ted Rall.....recently.....11/2005



hubcap <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've worked with some editors who didn't care whether stuff
> was any good, funny or made a point. If it made people
> write angry letters, then that meant they were reading it,
> so let's run it. That made my bad stuff good, and my good stuff
> (OK, not-so-bad stuff) irrelevant.

> I think a lot of editorial cartoons are that way (not good, pointless
> and unfunny) but that gets them attention, and makes them successful.

Think of it as trolling, the early years. That probably means trolling
can be considered blog and podcast bloviating, the early years.

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