Commentary: blogging revolution by Roy Greenslade - guardian.co.uk
Commentary: blogging revolution by Roy Greenslade - guardian.co.uk
my comment response to Roy Greenslade - Why journalists must learn the values of the blogging revolution as posted in the guardian online - June 25, 2008 9:02 AM - click here to go to article
i think of blogging as the power of one is more then the power of none and is more akin to the flapping of butterfly wings which can not only change the direction of a storm it can cause one - the media and journalism has lost a lot of credibility as Thomas Jefferson said he would rather see a strong press then a strong government -
blogging represents the voice of the people of the future of what one might call an internet nation that has no leaders, no borders, no gatekeepers not driven by top down management of fear or censorship or at least its one person who feels compelled to respond to something and say it to whom ever might stumble on it at any point in time -
i resonated with your secular priests commentary and how journalist and the media owners have not only “dominated the conversation” but i believe often help make up the so called news which has become the views and the conversation too -
we have a short attention deficiet dis-order for news because the media rarely keeps the conversation alive more then a short news cycle - plus we are addicted to fear and to the fear of not belonging - thanks to the media we get out daily dose - but i ask myself in you do we really know what is going on - do we trust the media to give us the info and let us decide - but what the media and government and our leaders don’t know is that we are only pretending we are zombies to go along to get along and others like bloggers for now are able to speak their thoughts - but we all know inside ourselves that we know we are not fools and fooled - we know that things are not what they appear to be -
or as i like to put it - we call this a democracy but maybe its more an idiotcracy where big biz is king, gov is queen and media and religion are the mistress - they go where ever power goes - but when i asked michael wolff of vanity fair what he thought of that he said they are all one and the same and as danny schechter in his film and book WMD - weapons of mass deception - are an indictment of media as co-conspirators in the war on iraq in the USA were i presently reside - but i wonder what people of the future will say about us too
to echo your quote below
“…journalists, especially print veterans like me, are so suspicious of bloggers. We have spent our lives dominating conversations. No, that’s wrong of course. We did not converse at all. We lectured. We provided the information that people feasted on in order to hold their own conversations.”
as a doc filmmaker doing a number of doc including on the media and propaganda called Who’s Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes - if so many people believe in something how can it be wrong - i often ask people what is not propaganda? and as a doc filmmaker i also realize we all have a point of view and bloggers though part of the uncontrolled mass are more likely to represent at least their own point of view rather then the owner or the media’s or biz or gov or religions agenda
but actually while we are at it in our present oil flexing its muscles crisis - oil dictatorship world coup we are all hostage to big oil and the oil brokers who make the prices too - as long as we are dependent on one product to power our world we are all hostages even the holy idiotcracy has a big brother watching over them
food for thought
i think we need to re-invent ourselves sooner then later and maybe the blog-oh-sphere will lead us to the promised land of dreams
be well
geogeller
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