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October 20, 2005
WB: The Merit System Revisited
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Is it just me or does there seem to be a under current of late to demonize bloggers in general and political blogs in particular?
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 20 2005 9:19 utc | 1
@$cam. they can run but they cannot hide. they need to get w/the program, we aren’t leaving.
Posted by: annie | Oct 20 2005 9:52 utc | 2
@ Uncle
I don’t know if antiblog propaganda has increased of late, but I get the feeling that the blogs are an increasingly painful problem for those accustomed to rule by clandestine thuggery and skulduggery. So, a counter-offensive would
be expected, especially as some of the conspiracy theories are being transformed into conventional wisdom and new fat is being tossed into the fire. (Cf. the link I posted on the “Judy the Source” thread.)
Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Oct 20 2005 9:58 utc | 3
I think the anti-blog propaganda is coming not from the pols but from the main stream media who have suddenly noticed that the blogs are making them look like professional wrestlers do compared to the Graeco-Roman archetype.
Because the relationship of Fox News, CNN, and the Networks to journalism is the same as that of WWF to the real thing.
Posted by: John Francis Lee | Oct 20 2005 10:59 utc | 4
As one who reads a couple specific Blogs each day (this being one of them) I believe that any anti-blog sentiment that may exist, other than the standard Partisan friction, is the total fictional imagination that dominates. That reality, imaginations-gone-wild, is offset by the occasional jewel that assists in focusing on the heart of the matter.
In most cases, the very complaint/aspersion that is cast toward coorporate media (bias, failure to determine the ‘facts’, etc.) exists magnified X1000. I enjoy reading this site, but some folks have trouble with reason, reality, veracity, and the power of deduction. Luckily there is no requirement for an Editor.
Now that I think about it, that is why I like it! LOL
Posted by: Soandso | Oct 20 2005 16:40 utc | 5
I think the media is struggling to define who bloggers are. Journalists tend to define the world into people who make things happen and people who watch things happen. The man in the White House versus the man in the street. Bloggers are kind of both, but kind of neither.
Like most dichotomies, it’s probably false, but it’s hard to have a worldview shaken.
Posted by: Rowan | Oct 20 2005 16:57 utc | 6