Twitter, The Cool Kids And An Eye For The Banal

“Take a close look and you’ll see that Rothstein mostly fixates on media figures who are either famous or act as if they are. The characters in her play are low-hanging fruit. There’s a case to be made that much of what Rothstein does could probably be programmed into a moderately sophisticated algorithm. Certainly you could say that of her daily ‘soup of the day’ post, in which she essentially copies and pastes MSNBC’s daily feature on which soup the White House is serving that day. But if one of our national news outlets is devoting labor to collecting this bit of pointless information every single day, it’s arguably ideal fodder for the media blog.”
 — Even if you don’t know any of the names in this story about D.C. web gossip Betsy Rothstein — and they are mostly D.C. media types, so you should actually take a considerable amount of pride if you don’t — you will enjoy the profile of a woman Awl pal Jason Linkins calls “the platonic ideal of a complete fucking moron.” It says so many things about the way we ____ now.