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February 10, 2006
Bloggers: an army of irregulars
I think this Paul Reynolds is definitely on to what the Blogging revolution really means. Personally I think it's an unconscious effort to redemocratize our country that's occurring. For years people on both sides, good and evil, have been railing against one injustice or another in private. But the effects have always been very narrow in scope because we don't have the means to reach a wider audience. But with the internet allowing unlimited access for everyone to blogs of anyone they want to hear from, there has been a discovery that we aren't all alone screaming at our televisions or radios by ourselves. Reynolds sort of missed the boat when he made the comment that we refer to them as the "mainstream media". That was long ago dropped because to pretend that what passes for media in this country for sure doesn't even approach what is the "mainstream" so most of us have moved to calling them traditional media. No I'm not going to pretend for a moment that bloggers are "mainstream". We are people that are a step ahead of most of the rest of the country. We've taken the battle between good and evil to the next level. But mostly we share a common enemy, which is the traditional media. Bias is the battle cry and the blog is the sword that hacks away at our common foe. Ultimately I think Paul is correct that we should be engaging the bloggers and listening to some level of the complaints can they hope to survive. Because on the daily basis they are being demonized by both the good and evil sides of the world. There are many in the traditional media that believe that acknowledgement of the complaints will somehow give them legitimacy, but the reality of the situation is that by ignoring them they are feeding the war against them. Do any of us ever believe that there will be news without bias in it? Absolutely not. People are inherently either good or evil, it's just a fact of life. I think that we will start to see a push towards acknowledgement of bias in the traditional media and an effort to give both sides a more equal share of the limelight. Which will make the traditional media more credible and allow bloggers to turn their own attentions to their own more hopeful or sinister agendas.
Read more over at BBC.
Posted by ManDrake at February 10, 2006 1:18 PM
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