Debate: Does Being "Dead Inside" Beat The Alternative?

Since it's from a piece with Andrew Breitbart's name attached to it, I think I'm going to frame this:

Internet-empowered journalism isn’t a Cosmic Cube-style weapon that will once and for all lay waste to all bullshit artists residing in low and high places. No, the new media that Breitbart helped operationalize are more like an over-the-counter Super Soldier Serum that helps us all fight for truth and justice as we define those terms (apologies for the turn to Marvel Comics-based metaphors). As the folks at Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, and even Reason.com can tell you, the expression enabled by all this doesn’t reliably tilt right, left, or libertarian and it doesn’t guarantee quality of content or even an audience. But it does allow a lot more people to speak up.

Allow me to summarize: 

We now have MORE idiots talking - but still nothing worth reading - let's hear it for the new media!

Just like NewAgers are "spiritual but not religious," this new crew "doesn’t reliably tilt right, left, or libertarian" - in other words, they don't know what they are. (How any man could write that is beyond me.) It's just a new collection of bozos, replacing the old collection of bozos, but still acting like the circus left town - and, for some, it works.

Breitbart's death was a blow - not just to politics but to common sense. When he was alive, these people treated him like a crazy uncle - as he repeatedly outshone them - and now that he's gone, their picking up his standard is a disgrace to his name. They ain't Breitbart and never will be. They're a bunch of cocktail party hacks, with no more of a clue how to be "radical" (or, in Ann Althouse's case, "cool") than the manager of your local Arby's.

It's the same thing in newspapers - they can't see past their lousy editorial positions so, naturally, their dwindling readership is the internet's fault. It has nothing to with putting horoscopes in the paper and covering the news as though they're true. No, it's just "the times they are a changing.'" Sure. I still read several newspapers a day, but can't help but find the Sudoku puzzles more fascinating than the rest of the content. They're about the only thing logical - and challenging - in them.

If you ask me, it's *almost* a good thing Breitbart's dead, so he can't see what the pretenders* have done to him.

The way they clumsily exploit his tactics - for nothing - wear his clothes, and claim his name. Anything not to admit the obvious:

Andrew Breitbart was a great man surrounded by midgets.

And only by laying him in the ground would he ever have to look up to them,…

*That would be the "Back On The Chain Gang" Pretenders, not these guys.