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Malcolm Gladwell thinks you’re a tapeworm

From Monday’s N.Y. Daily News (2nd to last item):

That was “Blink” author Malcolm Gladwell, the highly paid lecturer at business conferences everywhere, defending the viability of old media in a gabfest the other night at the New York Public Library to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the online magazine Slate. While former Time Inc. editor in chief Norman Pearlstine and Slate founder Michael Kinsley predicted doom and gloom for newspapers in the Internet age, Gladwell sang the praises of paper products and derided bloggers as “parasites” who feed on newspapers to survive. If newspapers die, “What are they [the bloggers] going to do? Get jobs?” Gladwell mocked.*

Little did the crowd know at the time, but Gladwell was actually giving the first public demonstration of his latest concept “The Self-Loathing Blogger”; coming this fall in hardcover from Little, Brown.

* - We went ahead and removed the lame “Let’s hope he’s right” closer added by the N.Y. Daily News. It reeked of desperation so badly we affectionately nicknamed it “Andy Dick” here at Blogebrity HQ.

WHO BLINKED? [NYDN]

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