First They Came for the Media…

Denis DeKat:
Found this article from a Kansas (the state that is abandoning science so that their students are the biggest dumbfucks in the country) web site. The full report can be found here

“The blogosphere is clearly a major addition to the national discourse,” said Dr. Michael Cornfield, senior research consultant to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. “But we need to be cautious with respect to the power of particular political bloggers. That power waxes and wanes depending on the sort of information available, the behavior of other public voices, and the tendency of internet forms and formats to evolve in a very short time.”

Isn’t it exciting?
The thing I find most amusing about the “power of bloggers” as a concept is that any power (or, more appropriately, influence) held by any particular blogger is given, not taken. A blogger’s sphere of influence is only as big as her or his readership, plus any media attention afforded to the blogger’s work, particularly new information and/or new ideas. So to suggest that “we need to be cautious with respect to” the power of political bloggers is really a thinly veiled acknowledgement that control of information simply isn’t what it used to be, which is the ultra-secretive Bush administration’s worst nightmare.

They’ve pretty effectively castrated the mainstream media; guess who they’ll come after next?

In the words of our fearless leader, Bring It On.

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