Why do many bloggers refer to themselves as we?
Even Mac Daniel of the Globe is doing it, so it must be approved by the paper's editorial people. What does it accomplish? It doesn't make you anonymous. It doesn't make you less responsible for what you write. And it really doesn't make sense when a blog only has one contributor. Can someone explain this?
posted by Rob at 5:49 AM
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It's like, postmodern. I have a whole series of posts on it. It's vaguely embarrassing.
-pat
those posts aren't doing us much good on your hard drive, are they, pat?
Scene: The Dude takes a hurried sip from his drink. DUDE - C'mon man, who're you gonna believe? Those guys are--we dropped off the damn money-
LEBOWSKI: WHAT?!
DUDE: I--the royal we, you know, the editorial--I dropped off the money, exactly as per--Look, I've got certain information, certain things have come to light, and uh, has it ever occurred to you, man, that given the nature of all this new shit, that,uh, instead of running around blaming me, that this whole thing might just be, not, you know, not just such a simple, but uh--you know? LEBOWSKI: What in God's holy name are you blathering about?
My blog is so "I" it's ridiculous.
It probably has to do with some kind of weakass push for an "objective voice" in a space that's known for being totally subjective.
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