The Perfect Storm

The staff over at Competitive Cyclist managed to fit mentions of Lance Armstrong, President Obama, journalism, and social networking into a single paragraph. (Bold emphasis is mine.)

A less venomous sub-species of the Lance Hater is the Defender of Old Media. Lance [Armstrong] is a champion of Twitter, of user-generated video (see livestrong.com), and of other means of self-produced messaging. Last I heard, people were heaping props onto Obama because these were the sorts of tactics he used to get elected US President. For some reason, though, old school media types are piling on Lance because he’s ‘producing his own message’ instead of entrusting the message-production to the squires of the Fifth Estate. To them, Lance is Twitter and Twitter is Lance. They detest him for his contributions in destroying their livelihood. With only little exception, being a journalist in 2009 is akin to being a travel agent in 1999. As is the case with most of the world’s ills, it’s all Lance’s fault.