jimmy eat jazz
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I follow a number of Jazz social media personalities. I don't personally interact with them, but based on reading a number of exchanges have reached some conclusions. I'm curious what your interactions with them have been and/or how your view them and if I may be off base on my perceptions.
Tony Jones: The worst of the bunch. An insufferable arrogant *** who treats those who disagree with him with condescension and disdain and who appears to view his own opinions as self-evident fact or akin to pronouncements by God etched on tablets of stone on top of Mt. Sinai. He sounds friendly and affable on podcasts, but on Twitter he's an A-1 dick.
Ben Dowsett: Somewhat better than Jones but also condescending and arrogant. I really liked him when he was on Salt City Hoops podcast, but his Twitter personality is boorish and off-puttish. Another guy who appears to think those who disagree with him are, by definition, twits.
Dan Clayton: Better than Jones and Dowsett but also has his moments of being a dick and condescending to people who disagree with him. Like the two above him, it's clear he thinks he understands the game better than others (he probably does, actually) and, thus, feels the need to take a lecturing and dismissive tone to those who don't see things his way. He knows the game, but so do lots of people, and I'm pretty sure many of them will have valid opinions that differ from his, yet he seem unwilling, ever, to concede this point.
Andy Larson: I've not seen the same type of arrogance and condescension from him. Not prone to lecturing/hectoring. I like him quite a lot...so far.
Ben Anderson: Not as active a Twitter personality, but I've always really enjoyed him, both on podcasts and on Twitter. I put him with Andy as the among the best of the bunch.
Who have I overlooked?
I concede that some of my conclusions may be based on biased samples, so, again, I'm curious what you all think.
One thing I find interesting among the Jazz social media pundits is when they get together for podcasts, they disagree about about things all the time and have civil discussions about it. While on Twitter, they (or some of them) rarely afford those who disagree with them a similar level of respect and treat them like dolts, even when they are taking the same kinds of positions or expressing the same kinds of opinions of their pundit buddies. It's this kind of dismissive disdain of people they don't see as on their level, even though many of these people have played or watched the game for decades and understand it well, that I find so off-puttish. (I concede that people do say dumb things, often things easily disproven with statistics. But you get the idea.)
Tony Jones: The worst of the bunch. An insufferable arrogant *** who treats those who disagree with him with condescension and disdain and who appears to view his own opinions as self-evident fact or akin to pronouncements by God etched on tablets of stone on top of Mt. Sinai. He sounds friendly and affable on podcasts, but on Twitter he's an A-1 dick.
Ben Dowsett: Somewhat better than Jones but also condescending and arrogant. I really liked him when he was on Salt City Hoops podcast, but his Twitter personality is boorish and off-puttish. Another guy who appears to think those who disagree with him are, by definition, twits.
Dan Clayton: Better than Jones and Dowsett but also has his moments of being a dick and condescending to people who disagree with him. Like the two above him, it's clear he thinks he understands the game better than others (he probably does, actually) and, thus, feels the need to take a lecturing and dismissive tone to those who don't see things his way. He knows the game, but so do lots of people, and I'm pretty sure many of them will have valid opinions that differ from his, yet he seem unwilling, ever, to concede this point.
Andy Larson: I've not seen the same type of arrogance and condescension from him. Not prone to lecturing/hectoring. I like him quite a lot...so far.
Ben Anderson: Not as active a Twitter personality, but I've always really enjoyed him, both on podcasts and on Twitter. I put him with Andy as the among the best of the bunch.
Who have I overlooked?
I concede that some of my conclusions may be based on biased samples, so, again, I'm curious what you all think.
One thing I find interesting among the Jazz social media pundits is when they get together for podcasts, they disagree about about things all the time and have civil discussions about it. While on Twitter, they (or some of them) rarely afford those who disagree with them a similar level of respect and treat them like dolts, even when they are taking the same kinds of positions or expressing the same kinds of opinions of their pundit buddies. It's this kind of dismissive disdain of people they don't see as on their level, even though many of these people have played or watched the game for decades and understand it well, that I find so off-puttish. (I concede that people do say dumb things, often things easily disproven with statistics. But you get the idea.)
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