Tony Snow, David Gregory Criticize Blogs

Posted on February 22, 2007

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow made some negative comments about blogs during a press roundtable at the National Press Club. Apparently blogs are full of very imaginative (by that he probably meant false) and hateful stuff. Tony Snow admitted he sometimes reads blogs ("I'll occasionally punch it up") only to find...

"You've got this wonderful, imaginative hateful stuff that comes flying out. I think one of the most important takeaways is - it's the classical line - not only should you not believe your own press, you probably shouldn't believe your opposition blogs either."

Tony Snow wasn't alone in criticing blogs. CJR Daily noticedthat journalist David Gregory also joined in on the blog criticism fun. Gregory is quoted as saying, "I think politics and political coverage has become so polarized in this country...because it's the Internet and the blogs that have really used this White House's press conferences to somehow support positions out in America, political views. And they will clip and digitize portions of these briefings to fit into their particular argument."

Aside from the very pessimistic comments about blogs by Tony Snow at least he sometimes "punches" the blogosphere up on his computer. Maybe that's a hopeful sign? Snow may also be the only person who uses the word punches to mean type.