Paul Morley -vs- Bloggers
I don't actually pick up the OMM, but my wife does like to get the Observer on Sundays from time to time. Actually make that "tries to read the Observer" because invariably we've children crawling on our heads and she probably only gets to look at the recipe bit.
When I do get look at the OMM I usually try and find things Simon Reynolds has written, I'll clock the body and feel an admixture of despondency and frustration at the middlebrow tenor (before reflecting that it's generally quite a solid and positive sort of mag), then finally I'll read Paul Morley's entertaining column.
Morley is almost guaranteed to be having a pop at music bloggers. This is four years after we ceased to be newsworthy. Three out of the three pieces I've seen written by him feature some kind of grumbling about or insulting of we. The latest piece is almost entirely about online music criticism. It's quite hilarious really.
Maybe Paul has failed to get that round-robin email by editorial which dictates that under no account should the conventional press write about forms of the internet which challenge the print hegemony? The petry dish guy got it. I suppose I'm glad he still does.