Atrios on the idea that blogs have destroyed "gatekeeper" media, which he defines as:
...a system by which "journalistic professionals" determined what the great unwashed did or did not need to know...
...it isn't blogs that destroyed the Gatekeepers. It wasn't blogs that put Rush Limbaugh on as an election analyst. It wasn't blogs that gave Bill O'Reilly the flagship show on a major cable news network. It wasn't blogs that gave Michael Savage his own television show on a cable news network. It wasn't blogs that put Ann Coulter on the cover of a major national news magazine. It wasn't blogs that created all of the various and often fact free screaming heads shows. It wasn't blogs that gave syndicated columns to numerous conservatives with little or no experience in journalism. It wasn't blogs that devoted the summer of 2001 to Gary Condit (uh, ok, well, maybe Josh helped a bit)and the summer of 2005 to a missing girl in Aruba. It wasn't blogs that invented the New York Post or Washington Times. And, it wasn't blogs that were responsible for all of the errors that [Media Matters] tracks on a regular basis.
Gatekeeper media may be dead, but to a great degree they dug their own grave and dove right in. Blogs didn't really get there until after the funeral.
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I heard it said that "Freedom of the press belongs to those that own the press"
Well, thanks to the internet, well all own our own presses.
And thanks to the internet, the presses of the world are open to us.
Everything is a double-edged sword, but the ability of the populace to inform itself, in my view, far outweighs the number of people searching for porn.
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