The FCC -- FDR's lever that moved the world.
....well, the MSM could OFFER A BETTER PRODUCT. But that wouldn’t get their unbiased, non partisan agenda out.....
Stupid comparison. The Sioux may have won the battle, but they LOST THE WAR!
Parsons ought to remember that although the Sioux Nation defeated Custer, it eventually lost the Black Hills War.
The idea that anyones opinion is as good as the so called “Journalists” is ground breaking from a publishing aspect.
I have blogged for years and occasionally submit pieces for publication on other sites.
If anyone had told me when I started that I would have a site with tens of thousands of visitors, have a piece that was read by over a quarter million people and was a featured piece on the Rush Limbaugh show I would have told them they were nuts.
I am still amazed.
Cheers,
knewshound
Could we please stop pretending that Citizen Kane is one of the world’s Great Works of Art?
The FCC -- FDR's lever that moved the world.
Bump for an article worth reading.
Driscoll has an excellent understanding of media history, but I question his time line of the emergence of the blogosphere. He seems to undervalue the emergence of news forums like FR in the late 90s as the link between news media and blogging, long before blogger.com and their success after 9-11 which he implies came from next to nowhere.
He’s also missing the next convergence, social networking married with blogging. Some day you’ll click on a blogger’s icon and see information from his myspace page, his ebay profile, his latest FR posts, YouTube videos etc,... (and what you see will be under his control)
Ping to this thread, it’s a good ‘un.
Dear Mr. Parsons,
Why don’t you ask Time-Warner stockholders if they like the idea of sharing the fate of the “Sioux Nation”????
Custer’s defeat was just a temporary (though bloody) setback for the US Cavalry.
But I don’t think any analogies to cavalry and Sioux work too well when contemplating the rise of the blogosphere and the complacent old MSM......
“We are the Sioux nation. They will lose this war if they go to war.”
OOPS!
Custer brought bigger weapons this time...
Interesting read.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
1. the MSM is a coastal-elite, hyper-urban groupthink paradigm. the MSM ignores the opinions of the Heartland except when that opinion is identical to elite Coastal thinking.
2. the MSM sees their purpose as being to advance global socialism, not to merely report news. Come up with something that convinces Americans to transfer free wealth to Africa and the MSM will publish it. Come up with something that attacks the U.S. resistance to international collectivism and the MSM will publish it.
3. ...but the above can’t win by telling the truth and holding open debates. Knowing that it must win through deceit limits the power of the MSM to those instances where it can completely control information.
That power/control has been reduced over the past 60 years by private magazines/newsletters, pirate/ham radio, BBS’s, talk radio, the Internet, Fox News, independent films/documentaries, etc.
Once an unquestioned ethical powerhouse, CBS’ 60 Minutes is now a laughingstock...all because of the lack of the MSM’s ability to fully control all information and public debate.
4. Thus, we are seeing the MSM post-epoch...they are past their peak (of power) and they can’t get it back so long as their prime goal is to advocate global socialism through deceit.
What is this obsession, bordering on religion, on insisting that news organizations be “objective”? In the early years of our nation every newspaper was an advocate of one political position or another. The founding fathers expected it to be so, and expressly codified their right to be partisan.