Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Clarey: Bring me the head of Charles Davenport? Jr?

Yeah, Cone kicks Davenport around pretty good this week.
As someone who was recently tagged by Davenport, it's difficult not to take a little pleasure in all this.
I do think calling for the guy's job is an extreme reaction. As a columnist he's got to put his ideas out there. As a 'conservative' columnist he's got an agenda to advance and, in the conservative thinkers who are his fans, a group of people he's more or less obligated to satisfy, people who aren't necessarily interested in reading about his kids or his dog but prefer to have their own views reinforced. It's the same thing for 'liberal' columnists, by the way, who are expected by their readers to go to battle against the right each and every week. It's kind of a clusterf**k.
But I'm digging on the integration of media and also the level of critique we're seeing here.
Brian Clarey