Comments on: Maureen Dowd On The 'toy for bored celebrities and high-school girls'

By: Vaun Woods

Vaun Woods — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:30:08 +0000

I guess she’s right on that when she said it’s a for bored celebrities and high school girls. Many news today include celebrities taking on each other and “tweeting” on the internet. Sometimes, tweeting makes celebrity war. Well, maybe it does takes away “boredom” from those celebrities.

By: thingsbreak

thingsbreak — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:54:43 +0000

Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone Via Twitter, naturally.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:12:33 +0000

Things like this, though, make me glad some people are twittering:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017872.php

Let Roland Hedley parody himself. The more opportunities for transparency, the better.

By: Bench Marks » Blog Archive » Link Roundup 04-23-2009

Bench Marks » Blog Archive » Link Roundup 04-23-2009 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:54:52 +0000

[...] Dowd calling Twitter, “a toy for bored celebrities and high-school girls” (found via The Intersection), web-strategist Jeremiah Owyang predicting that alpha-geek early adopters will move on to the next [...]

By: Philip H

Philip H — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:43:39 +0000

I just haven’t gotten itno Twitter. I could roam the bloggoshpere all day, and there are days I’d like to make my living writing that way. It actually appeals to my overwhelming need for good process. Twitter would just run me down psychologically. That said, it has a great name from a branding perspective.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:33:59 +0000

That image insults my sense of reality though; if I were to shoot a bird with an arrow I’d use a “flu-flu” for fletching rather than the vanes portrayed. I would also use a “thumper” tip rather than a piercing tip but that’s more a matter of preference (that bird would be a big mess if it were hit by broadheads though). Can we have an image of a bird with a few buckshot holes in it instead? I’m curious to know what offends you so much about twitter – I just ignore it.

By: hardindr

hardindr — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:34:17 +0000

http://www.dailyhowler.com/h061500_1.shtml

“Maureen is very talented,” observes Joe Klein of The New Yorker. “But she is ground zero of what the press has come to be about in the nineties…I remember having a discussion with her in which I said, ‘Maureen, why don’t you go out and report about something significant, go out and see poor people, do something real?’ And she said, ‘You mean I should write about welfare reform?’”

All you need to know about Dowd…

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:37:37 +0000

For Maureen Dowd most things are toys for celebrities for high-school girls. For once I agree with her!

By: Jon Winsor

Jon Winsor — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:54 +0000

Occasionally I like MoDo, but this is my all time least favorite column ever:

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/opinion/23dowd.html

If she had actually hired someone to parody her, they couldn’t have done any better.

If someone wondered about what kind of thing got Bob Somerby going back in the day, all they have to do is look at this one Dowd column.