Because Bloggers weren't around at previous conventions, weren't there in the trenches for countless elections, primaries and issues. No, Bloggers haven't been doing what we have been doing and coalescing into one of the largest activist and information sharing networks, shaping the narrative of the news cycles in an effort to counterbalance failures in the older and compromised traditional media long before any of the more recent credentialed things started to happen...
Nope. According to the NY Times Bloggers have only arrived now. My question for the NY Times:
When do they plan on catching up to us?
Because we are still far ahead of the NY Times and other proven corporate and government media propaganda outlets in speaking truth to power, integrity and honesty in our coverage of the news. At least, the left side of the Blogosphere is.
The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived - NYTimes.com
Nope. According to the NY Times Bloggers have only arrived now. My question for the NY Times:
When do they plan on catching up to us?
Because we are still far ahead of the NY Times and other proven corporate and government media propaganda outlets in speaking truth to power, integrity and honesty in our coverage of the news. At least, the left side of the Blogosphere is.
4 comments:
I don't think they can catch up. Some of their mistakes lately seems to suggest they do worse than some of dedicated bloggers.
I think you may be right... They seem to willfully remain mired in their dead tree ways while most people have long since moved on.
I have a degree in Communications and I am amazed at how slow the MSM has been in catching onto the incredible power of the internet. I wonder sometimes if they are in denial.
Michelle: Part of their problem is that they are so invested in the business model they created for ad revenue they have a hard time trying to keep up with those of us that have absolutely no budget beyond Google type ads and relatively no overhead beyond buying a digital camera or video cam and, if even, some bandwidth and domain name if we want to bother.
Then they make matters worse for themselves when they cut local content down to nil and wonder "why do more and more people turn to the internet?" And then you have the media take preposterous positions (like the Hartford Courant did) and ask Bloggers to provide them with free content after laying off many of their local staff. Are they nuts?
If we had a thriving and healthy local media they would still be making money. They are the cause of their own downfall through failed business decisions and failed editorial decisions. Any media manager that would hire the likes of Judy Miller or pay the AP services for Ron Fournier's GOP talking points, or present a dunderhead like Fred Lucas as a non-partisan contributor without any real opposing views is begging for failure.
I would like nothing more than to see the media succeed. But they need to provide real hard news and investigative reporting that is fact checked, and they have do this both locally and nationally in order to do that.
They don't and the citizens that used to rely on them for the truth suffer. And even more of them head to our Blogs. But Bloggers suffer too. Because now we have to not only fact check their failures but we have to create content for ourselves in their absence.
Frankly, I would like to have more time to Blog about and do things that actually interest me - like hockey, gardening or sex... Anything but politics - so I am begging the media to do their job so I/we don't have to anymore.
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