Why the Establishment Doesn't Like Blogging
Blogging cuts across party lines and political ideology. It counters and contradicts the "wisdom" we are supposed to receive from the powerful media magntes and the political elites that until now had a monopoly on information.
Blogging has exposed media blunders and fraud, e.g., the altered Reuters pictures of the black clouds over Lebanon, and the backward clouds of Sen Mike DeWine's WTC political cheap shot ad. "Macaca" became part of the election-year lexicon because of blogging.
It continually shows that the MSM and the political spinners who control it are challenged. Something they are not used to having done. Blogging continually challenges the conventional wisdom that they establish with their herd thinking and reporting.
Worst of all for the establishment, blogging can't be controlled by people who know that controlling information and how you receive it is critical to their existence. Whether it is your daily newspaper, your local TV station, national outlets, the government, or local radio talk show host, they have lost their monopoly over information.
They hate that loss. That monopoly is the only thing that allows their existence, unless they are good and fair at what they do. Otherwise, they may go the way of the telegraph.
They're response to blogging? As does every monopolist, they try to co-opt it. So each of your local TV stations, every politician, and local newspaper has set up their own blog. In the name of blogging they are merely trying to retain editorial control over a blogger's content and intellectual property.
If you blog on your local paper's blog, you are merely submitting a Letter to the Editor, giving him or her, rather than you, the right to determine if others should see your opinions.
Don't blog to CNN, CBS, or any other institutional blog. Start your own blog. Do it yourself. Take the opportunity to let others know what you think, not what your local newspaper decides
they should think.
Blogging has exposed media blunders and fraud, e.g., the altered Reuters pictures of the black clouds over Lebanon, and the backward clouds of Sen Mike DeWine's WTC political cheap shot ad. "Macaca" became part of the election-year lexicon because of blogging.
It continually shows that the MSM and the political spinners who control it are challenged. Something they are not used to having done. Blogging continually challenges the conventional wisdom that they establish with their herd thinking and reporting.
Worst of all for the establishment, blogging can't be controlled by people who know that controlling information and how you receive it is critical to their existence. Whether it is your daily newspaper, your local TV station, national outlets, the government, or local radio talk show host, they have lost their monopoly over information.
Politicians dislike it for the same reason. They can't control the message. They know that if you can't control the message people may start to draw their own, independent conclusions. That is very unnnerving for politicians, since to be one you have to be a bit of a "control freak."
They hate that loss. That monopoly is the only thing that allows their existence, unless they are good and fair at what they do. Otherwise, they may go the way of the telegraph.
They're response to blogging? As does every monopolist, they try to co-opt it. So each of your local TV stations, every politician, and local newspaper has set up their own blog. In the name of blogging they are merely trying to retain editorial control over a blogger's content and intellectual property.
If you blog on your local paper's blog, you are merely submitting a Letter to the Editor, giving him or her, rather than you, the right to determine if others should see your opinions.
Don't blog to CNN, CBS, or any other institutional blog. Start your own blog. Do it yourself. Take the opportunity to let others know what you think, not what your local newspaper decides
they should think.
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