The most common positive feedback — as opposed to the you treat my restaurant unfairly b.s. — I receive about Taste Everything Once is that it is a better food guide than what 7 and The Inlander provide. That’s nice, but these people miss a crucial point. Without the “mainstream media,” there likely wouldn’t be a Taste Everything Once. Think about it. If a restaurant opens where do we get all the information about it from? Once in a while from the owners or guests, sure, but more often than not it is from 7 or The Inlander.

This, not surprisingly, is why the recent cuts over at The Spokesman-Review is a very bad thing for local blogs in Spokane. Not just food related, obviously, but sources for any opinionated… opinion… is based on that dreaded “MSM.”

It’s kind of sad I feel the need to write something as basic as this, but there are plenty of dipshits who don’t get it. Go to the S-R blogs for examples. I’m not doing the commenters the favor of linking to them. People who take joy in others losing their jobs? Little fucks.

But we’ll see how well their precious blogosphere will cater to their news-needs. Of course, they don’t have news-needs as such. They need people to cater to their opinions, to say what they want to hear.

And that will still be provided for them.