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Joined: 17 Apr 2007
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 Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:56 am |
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| But as Keen shows, many blogs and “news” sites are merely fronts for public relations machines. Others conceal their agendas. They’re also unaccountable and rarely remove their mistakes. |
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How can he try to argue that traditional print media is doing its job correctly when 70 percent of Americans thought back in 2003 that Saddam was involved with 9/11, and Bill O'Reilly is still on television with brilliant insight about the war like "I don't want to hear any more about Sunni or the Shia!"? The reason that the US politics blogosphere is actually becoming relevant to the discourse is because blogs don't have word count limitations and can actually elaborate on their positions in detail. 30-second soundbites don't inform anyone, they just keep people tuned in to the next segment.
The blogosphere has actually begun to integrate itself into modern politics and actual news reporting. Take, say, the left-wing netroots' support of Ned Lamont in Connecticut which eventually resulted in Joe Lieberman's defeat in the primary, or FireDogLake in the courtroom during the Scooter Libby trial liveblogging the whole thing. Or Glenn Greenwald, who started with a simple Blogspot page cataloging the failures of the mainstream media and ended up getting a large readership, a column at Salon, and a venue to directly address ivory-tower Beltway types like Joe Klein.
I think he's conveniently ignoring the nice thing about most blogs; instant feedback, which means that if you're wrong about something, you'll be held accountable via comments. Of course, not all feedback is worth something, which is why I use Greasemonkey to turn off all Youtube comments. |
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