I’m a couple days late as I only saw your blogger slamming video yesterday morning. Before I start, for any of you – like me yesterday morning – that have yet to see
Martha’s unsavoury statement and wanna know what my impending rant is in regards to, this is what Martha Stewart recently said during an interview –
“I do have a minor gripe about that too {social media} because who are these bloggers? They’re not trained editors at Vogue magazine. I mean there are bloggers writing recipes that aren’t tested, that aren’t necessarily very good or are copies of everything that really good editors have created and done. So, bloggers create … uh … kind of a … uh … popularity. But they are not the experts and we have to understand that.“
Oh Martha, where do I start? You let your verbal diarrhea get the better of you. Allow me to compare what you said to that of a school teacher. You’re at your desk in class when your teacher all of a sudden not only fails you, but stands up on his or her desk, points and ridicules you in front of the entire class. That’s what your statement does, Martha. You made bloggers feel unimportant and wrong for no reason whatsoever. We thought you got our backs.
But I do feel sympathetic towards you Martha, I really do. You don’t know what it’s like to have a blog. You have a writhing team of people to do it for you. You have an indisposable amount of photographers, stylists, editors, writers, designers, and coders. Us bloggers however, are the stylists. We are the photographers, the editors, the writers, the Photoshoppers. We mindlessly arrange and rearrange a space to get a photo to look just right. We are hunched over our computers in our pyjamas with no bra on, Googling code with needy cats on our laps, endlessly editing our posts and tutorials.
Here’s a cute picture of my cat to break up all the text.
May I ask you Martha, when you started your catering business, did you start off using someone else’s recipes? Albeit you maybe changed an ingredient here and there but as the legend of Martha Stewart goes, you started off
baking cookies in your basement. I’m no expert when it comes to cookies, but I’d say there’s about 6 or 7 ingredients that go into a cookie, and chances are, your first cookies were a copy of someone else’s. I’m not placing the blame game here Martha, but if you’re going to go down that route, you best be taking a long hard look at yourself first.
I’m not the only blogger to write about Martha’s statement this week. Most bloggers, like myself, can barely keep their hands still over the vast amount of expletives they’re shouting at their computer screens. Some bloggers chose to write about how Martha in fact
supports bloggers, but to that I say Martha’s
brand supports bloggers. She sure doesn’t sound like she likes them. She even kinda
backhandedly apologized on Twitter.
The thing that gets to me the most Martha is that if you were starting off now – you and your homemade cookies in your basement – you would have started a blog about them. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve always been in awe at your creations, creativity and what you’ve achieved from such humble beginnings. But for now, that open wound needs to scab over.
p.s. As more bloggers have stepped forward and voiced their opinion, Holly Becker of decor8’s post inspired me the most. After my blood pressure resumes, I’m hoping to do as Holly says, and take it as constructive criticism {not that I consider myself an expert in the first place}.
