his legitimization of personal voice in his widely-syndicated newspaper column was an indirect cultural influence on the rise of blogs and other more personal media to their recent dominance of the media landscape
Anil Dash on Andy Rooney. I think that’s absolutely true. I remember watching Rooney at the end of 60 Minutes as a kid, loving his willingness to take on conventional wisdom and mass market consumerism. His constructive snark was a type of proto-blogosphere stance. He was fisking things while Fisk’s future critics were still in diapers. Thank You, Andy - Anil Dash
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