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Blogging Beyond the Men's Club (MSM Tries to Change 'White-Dominated' Blogs)
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Posted on 03/15/2005 2:09:05 PM PST by GulliverSwift
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The comment was from Keith Jenkins, an African-American blogger who is also an editor at The Washington Post Magazine [a sister publication of NEWSWEEK].
"It has taken 'mainstream media' a very long time to get to [the] point of inclusion," Jenkins wrote. "My fear is that the overwhelmingly white and male American blogosphere ... will return us to a day where the dialogue about issues was a predominantly white-only one."...
Fortunately the Washington Post doesn't have absolute control over what bloggers do, although they'd like to. This all just makes the MSM liberals uncomfortable. They are now trying to attack their rival for information.
But is there a way to promote diversity online, given the built-in decentralization of the blog world? Jenkins, whose comment started the discussion, says that any approach is fineexcept inaction. "You can't wait for it to just happen,"
So what are you going to do, force them to do it? Lets have the MSM order bloggers around and tell them how they should implement affirmative action.
nd at the Harvard conference, Suitt challenged people to each find 10 bloggers who weren't male, white or English-speakingand link to them.
Never mind if what they have to say is crap or don't agree with it. Mindless affirmative action dogma has no place in the blogosphere....yet.
To: GulliverSwift
So this is a way to call bloggers rascist? Is the return of the "angry white male" of the 1990's?
Shame on Newsweak.
So, no one is forcing people to blog. I am sure there are different demographics for online trading, downloading music, etc.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:12:24 PM PST
by
KC_Conspirator
(This space outsourced to India)
To: GulliverSwift
Remember Al Gore's phone tax to get more computers to poor kids. Now we'll have a grant to encourage minorities and women to wrtie columns on the www. What's another nickel on the ol phone bill.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:12:33 PM PST
by
bigsigh
To: GulliverSwift
Everytime the so called progressive get bested they go to race and sex baiting. How utterly predictable. Let'm try some new ideas for a change of pace.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:13:51 PM PST
by
Calusa
( ... Oh, sweet Gaia, I'm gonna heave!")
To: GulliverSwift
With no diversity, blogs are doomed! Doomed I tell you!
:) Hehe!
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:14:32 PM PST
by
writer33
("In Defense of Liberty," a political thriller, being released in March)
To: GulliverSwift
Actually, we're all dogs sitting behind keyboards.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:15:30 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Sick already of premature speculation on the 2008 race)
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: GulliverSwift
I have no idea what the age, sex, race, etc. of certain bloggers are unless they tell me. Does Jenkins think only white males have internet access? Are blacks being prevented from blogging?
Typical, old school race-baiting liberalism.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:18:56 PM PST
by
MisterRepublican
(I DEMAND THAT FOX NEWS GET JENNIFER ECCLESTON BACK FROM NBC!)
To: GulliverSwift; mhking
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:22:41 PM PST
by
doodad
To: GulliverSwift
Let me guess... We all have to run pictures of ourselves next to our comments so idiots like this know what color we are?
Gimme a break.
It's stupid and silly. On a blog , you're known by the quality of your ideas, not the color of your skin.
This is a level playing field if ever there was one.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:23:54 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Liberals haven't had a new idea in 40 years.)
To: GulliverSwift
Re: "...concerned that if the voices of bloggers overwhelm those of traditional media, "we will throw out some of the best ... journalism of the 21st century." The comment was from Keith Jenkins, an African-American blogger who is also an editor at The Washington Post Magazine..."
Jason Blair comes screaming to mind just now, I have no idea why. :-}
To: kennedy6979
What are we gonna have affirmative action on the internet! What, you don't remember the digital divide and the Gore tax we still pay?
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:24:44 PM PST
by
doodad
To: GulliverSwift
Unless bloggers identify themselves by race, how can you tell? How could you exclude or include individuals by race? I don't care what color people are, I'm looking for someone who has something interesting to say, unlike the Washington Post magazine that only rarely has anything I want to read beyond Gene Weingarden and Dilbert. The MSM are just beside themselves because they no longer control information, and therefore, political discourse. Tough noogies. And Newsweek, with all its posturing, pathetic attempts at sophistication, nasty-gossipy fluff and "with-it-ness" is a huge bore. What we are hearing is the cry of the dinosaurs as they become extinct.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:27:44 PM PST
by
3AngelaD
To: GulliverSwift
This absurd on some many levels. There are no gate keepers stopping anyone from blogging. That's the great thing about blogging. Of course, if you aren't any good at it, nobody is going to be interested in your blog but that's your fault.
You don't even have to own a computer to blog. Just go the public library and use one of their computers. Geez, we have to have affirmation action for blogs now? No, I don't think so.
To: GOPJ
This is a level playing field if ever there was one.This is exactly why its such a threat.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:28:58 PM PST
by
skeeter
("What's to talk about? It's illegal." S Bono)
To: GulliverSwift
Help me out here. My dogma o matic is on overload.
Racial discrimination is bad. Everyone should be equal.
www.blogger.com or other free sites give out a blog to anyone who subscribes. White. Black. Chinese grandmother. Turkish stripper. Transgendred Inuit.
There is NO way of telling who is writing that blog.
So, how are the evil forces of discrimination going to bias against other-than-white, non-to-semi-male bloggers? HOW?
It's a level playing field. The best writer wins.
What, exactly, do the enlightened on the left dislike about so egalitarian a concept?
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:29:15 PM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. Mark it zero, Dude.)
To: GulliverSwift
Just another lonely, black racist, calling in the night....
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:29:45 PM PST
by
Al Gator
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: Calusa
My thought exactly. the have no idea who is black or white or anything on the internet. To write a piece of nonsense like this it has to be a lame attempt at "web is racist" BS.
No one can force anyone to visit a web site. Unlike when you have a ONE newspaper town.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:30:49 PM PST
by
marty60
To: GulliverSwift
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It's always about feelings for the liberals. Perish the thought that thinking and facts and logic and integrity might be positive attributes. Instead, yell racism on the Internet. Idiots.
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posted on
03/15/2005 2:30:52 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(We won. We don't need to be forgiving. Let the heads roll!!!!!!!!!)
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