Blogs: Time to End the "Self-Appointed" Name-Calling: "The word ‘self-appointed’ is the odd part, especially if it’s meant to distinguish between bloggers and publishers of traditional newspapers or those who run the TV or even the film industry.

Deja vu is the phrase that comes to mind.

Back in the mid 1980s, when I was in Moscow stringing for RKO Radio and Cox News, the foreign correspondents who represented major US newspapers and big networks laughed at upstart CNN, which had opened a bureau in the Soviet capital. They laughed at Ted Turner, too, the ‘self-appointed’ millionaire (or was it already a billion?) who had presumed to start a 24/7 TV news operation."

(Via WhirledView.)