Aside from noting the that I have a strange perch upon which to twitter (being a blogger who works for a “newspaper” of sorts kind of makes the, “You can’t make stuff up?” question kinda moot--no, they’d can my butt), I can’t imagine why “us bloggers,” Ekky aside, have any real interest in making stuff up.

Don’t we spend more time, energy, and effort de-bunking storylines proffered by those who claim neutrality than we do anything else? 

I mean, look at the Sundin situation, and the way the media’s eating out of Cliff Fletcher’s cold, dead hand.  Does anybody who remembers the last time Sundin’s contract was up, much less the trade deadline, expect Sundin to be pressured into making a decision before he’s darn good and ready, and does anybody really expect that process to take less than a slow-but-sure and thorough analysis of all his options (you know, the 28 other ones the Habs and Leafs don’t present, as well as simply not playing at all anymore)? 

It’s not just a hobby for many of us anymore, and I try to tag myself as a plain old “subjective fan” to be specific, but…

The good bloggers are the ones you go to when you read four or five journalists covering the same game see it in four or five vastly different ways, or translate a comment from a coach or player ten different ways, so that you read that blogger say, “Duh, he’s said this fifty times before, and when he says the puck didn’t go in the net, that’s all he means, he’s not accusing so-and-so of not producing, the refs of conspiratorial thinking, or contemplating the Gross National Product of Ecuador and its relation to the lack of a cohesive model of the universe according to current scientific thought, he’s just saying that the puck didn’t go in the net.”

I don’t get it, Alanah.  There’s no reason to make **** up.  The media does it enough already.  The truth is a lot more interesting, even when it’s generic brand vanilla ice cream plain.

Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 06/24/08 at 04:49 AM ET

eating out of Cliff Fletcher’s cold, dead hand.

bwahahaha…

And. Right on George.

Bloggers = Daily Show/Colbert Report of Hockey

Posted by Osrt on 06/24/08 at 06:04 AM ET

While I have no dog in this fight, I feel like I should point out that The Ryan Malone Story was perpetuated by a professional hockey journalist who also happened to have a blog, not by a “blogger.”

Posted by Steve on 06/24/08 at 10:00 AM ET