Tag: Funny

Comedy has always fascinated me as a difficult to execute art. It’s hard to be funny, and I guess comedy is one of those things which you classify under tautological virtues (like humility for instance – the moment you say that you’re humble, you’re missing the point). So listening to people who are naturally funny tends to be a deconstructive experience for me as I try to figure out why so and so Joe entertains me, whereas if someone else said the exact same thing, it wouldn’t even spark a smirk.

So I just finished listening to Bob Newhart’s ‘I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This’, a semi-autobiography of the guy best known for his self-titled sitcom ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ back in the day.

It’s been a while since we’ve come across the topic of the thin line between bloggers and journalists. After being involved in one event after the other, I’ve come to realize that this really isn’t an issue between bloggers and journalists, but more of an issue with emerging media – that includes corporations slowly accepting the credibility of other online portals and not just blogs per se. So it really is a “name game” as they say it. Local online networks like Yehey!, Click the City, and INQUIRER.net for instance have become accredited sources of information for different things.

I guess the worldwide online medium needed some time to grow and prove itself as a professional medium – not professional in the sense that it is an industry, but profession in the sense that several entities in the industry can make names for themselves. The industry likes names.

But names can really go a long way, and if that name crosses the line, you have what you call a “scandal.”