Mitch Albom hates blogs...who cares?

Mitch Albom thinks all bloggers are not on the same cloud as he. Not so fast... (Picture courtesy of Slate.com)

I have been writing blogs for a little over two months now. Sure the grammar could be better and the sentence structure could be a little more focused. But blogs are meant to help people sound out their wide range of emotions and ideas whether it be in sports or personally in their own lives. You can also create professional blogs like Deadspin and Jay Mariotti's where people get paid to blog. But when I heard the words of Mitch Albom, I just about had it with the man who got caught lying in a column he wrote during the Final Four.

Albom is well known to me. It all goes back to the Fairfax Times when he was going to be accepting an award from the George Mason University Fall for the Book program for the books he has written (Five People You Meet In Heaven, Tuesdays with Morrie, etc.) I decided to put a promotion for the event in our community calendar. Little did I know, the Entertainment section put in a photo then my editor put in a photo and by the time it was all done, Mitch Albom had 5 photos in the newspaper!!!! Also, a fellow writer named Monty announced his hatred for the man on a blog he had. So you see, I know about Mitch Albom.

In an article he wrote, he said "Bloggers can essentially basically be anyone with a computer. And anyone with a computer does not belong on the level any more than I should just be able to to arrest somebody you know because I decided to, versus being a police officer. Or do somebody's taxes because I decided to, versus going to accounting school."

Albom went on to distinguish himself from bloggers by saying "At least in my case and a lot of the people that are from my era and I've been in this close to three decades now, we went to school for this. We trained for this. I have a Master's degree from Columbia. I learned certain rules about what is journalism and what isn't."

OK Mitch. So you're saying all these so-called bloggers out there are a bunch of uneducated, nitwits that have no right to blog about anything? This is America last I checked and not all bloggers are morons. Most bloggers like to mix in humor but make their points known rather seriously. You're no prestine journalist Albom. You've had faults of your own (See Final Four Snafu: http://www.poynter.org/article_feedback/article_feedback_list.asp?user=&id=80831).

Also, there are classes on blogs too, so people are trained for this. Check out Media Bistro for one of the sources offering them.

Albom needs to stick to his lame books. At least that way he can write fiction and get away with it.

For more, read the deadspin blog about Albom:

http://deadspin.com/5153058/mitch-albom-has-a-few-things-to-get-off-his-chest