The more journalists blog, the lower my esteem plummets. There’s something about the blog medium that undermines all their normal journalistic rhetorical tricks and techniques for making themselves sound authoritative.
Blogs encourage you to reveal a little more about your personality than you otherwise might – and the problem with many journalists is that underneath that rational, analytical facade lurks a starstruck teenager desperate to be in the gravitational orbit of the powerful, rich and famous.
There are always exceptions – those journalists who just make you more impressed with their dedication and ability. The BBC’s chief football writer, Phil McNulty, is not one of them. He just posted this fawning account of a press conference by Big Phil Scolari, the new Chelsea manager that reveals more about little Phil wot wrote it than it does Big Phil himself.
Chelsea’s new coach … capped his coronation with a glittering performance of charm, passion and a command of the English language that made mugs of us all
Made mugs of them all indeed, if they all went off to file starry-eyed, 1000-word man-crushes like this. Made mugs of them all, if they all let slip how much they had been looking forward to painting him as a big, crazy, foreign buffoon.
No chance of perspective if these “mugs” are so susceptible to glamour; so caught up in the perfect deliciousness of their insider status, that they could even consider describing a football manager’s press conference as a “glittering performance”.
Good luck Scolari, you’ll need it if you ever upset these idiots and they decide it’s time to punish you.
As for me, I’m only bitter because I’m jealous.
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