That annoyed me too! It's as if it wasn't a story until Twitter came on the scene. Yesterday, a livejournal post was forwarded to me via Facebook by a librarian friend. I loved how the NYTimes article says twitter about a billion times, and then simply refers to the main hub of the controversy, a livejournal page, simply as a "blog." Apparently livejournal isn't an important enough entity to deserve a mention.
I think people think it's some kind of 'cheat' to report on common internet phrases and memes as though they're something new and fascinating. Like when they were all abuzz by the one baseball game that got 'rickrolled'. It's just really lazy reporting mostly, like the kind of stuff Cosmo is even above.
Overall though, it's just Amazon shooting themselves in the foot. I bought a lot of gay-relevant documentaries and movies online specifically because I didn't know where else in the sticks out here to find them. I don't see how a universally accessible online store is going to compete if they offer the same non-offensive crap that's peddled at the local walmart.
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Overall though, it's just Amazon shooting themselves in the foot. I bought a lot of gay-relevant documentaries and movies online specifically because I didn't know where else in the sticks out here to find them. I don't see how a universally accessible online store is going to compete if they offer the same non-offensive crap that's peddled at the local walmart.
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