Jared Leto Hates Bloggers
Here is a small part of an interview that Jared Leto gave G4, where he rips on Celebrity Gossip Blogs. The Article was published Sept 19th.
G4: Do you do a lot of blogging from the road?
JARED: No, I think that blogging should die a sudden death.
G4: Why?
JARED: It’s just ridiculous. It’s like a playground for four-year-olds. People say and do things in the world of blogs that they would never do in real life, and I think it’s a false experience. You know, it’s, like, eating too much candy.
G4: So you don't read alot of the celebrity gossip blogs, I take it?
JARED: Well, you know, one of the things along those lines that bothers me about when people start citing blogs as news sources is that when people are writing on these blogs, they feel like they don’t feel they need to do any research or back up their opinions with facts or anything, you know what I mean?
G4: Why is there this inherent lack of responsibility when it comes to blogging as journalism?
JARED: I couldn’t tell you. Times have changed. It used to be, to be a writer you had to have experience and talent, and learn a craft. Now anybody with an opinion, which is anyone and everyone, feels that it’s worthy. Technology is allowing people to have access to things where before it required very great skill. So there will be some interesting developments from that, and also some things that are pretty worthless. Pretty soon anybody with a cell phone is going to be able to be a news reporter. The blog is yesterday’s parachute pants. It’s here now but it’s gone tomorrow.
G4: You no longer have to even know what news reporting is.
JARED: You really don’t. All you have to do is point your friggin’ Blackberry at
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