More people are blogging than ever — particularly young people — while traditional media grapple with dwindling interest and growing criticism from this tech-savvy share of the public, experts told United Press International.
“Blogs are the ultimate reason we are seeing journalism clean house nowadays…If some questionable news-gathering behavior had grown to be tolerated, the blogosphere has put an end to that.” (Source)
Such leads attract my attention and pull me right in. I like reading about blogging, bloggers, and mainstream media’s (MSM) antipathy toward the blogosphere.
By now most web-savvy people know that blogging is not only about political rants or what someone had for breakfast or how much they love Constantine from “American Idol.” Blogging has become a true alternative to MSM, especially when it’s done well.
In addition to high-profile bloggers with professional day jobs (Power Line, Hugh Hewitt and Instapundit), there are hundreds of others out there reporting news and dissecting what MSM considers news (The Word Unheard, Geopolitical Review, and Rosenblog, for example).
Blogging is here to stay, and I’m excited about the possibilities, which appear to be endless from my vantage point.
Update: The Cassandra Page reports on the Media Research Center’s 2004 Dishonors Awards.
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There you go again with the shameless American Idol plug to pull in Google searches… well done.
For what it’s worth, you should mention Nikko Smith, another contestant already booted off. I mentioned his name once in reference to an XM radio show and received hits every day for weeks.
Pop culture. I’m way out of the loop.
Thanks for the plug! Great site you have here. I reciprocated the favor by adding you to my blog roll.
Have a great day!
Click on my name for analysis of the MSM’s recent strategy and a theory regarding how the MSM/DNC is reacting to the blogosphere.
Thank you for mentioning my humble little home, La Shawn. The way I see it, somebody’s got to keep an eye on how the MSM Sans Borders presents world events…
…the dirty little secret is that guys like Jeff and I have always been doing it. We’ve just been confined to the solitude of our own books and one-on-one conversations.
Blogs have changed everything. Now, no one owns information nor its flow.
Hope to meet you in Nashville Saturday.
Cheers.
BTW….Salt1907, your MSM/DNC list is awesome. It made my Fisker’s Whiskers rundown, even though it is not a pure traditional fisk. Didn’t care. It was simply awesome. Great work.
Readers…Just click the Salt1907 up there…
Go ahead…just do it. You’ll thank me…errr….salt1907.
The best part is watching the MSM squirm when bloggers call them out. They’re not used to this thing called accountability and I am enjoying every minute of it.
Keep up the good work!
“Blogging has become a true alternative to MSM, especially when it’s done well.”
I don’t know if its right to call it an alternative when so much of the web’s raw material is still provided by the corporate media. Right now it looks like at least symbiosis, and perhaps parasitism at times.
The liberal lamestream media wants to set the agenda by controlling the way news is presented to the public. Anything that is contrary to liberal thought is given short shrift. Facts that overturn liberal beliefs are either ommitted or put on page 32 2nd to last paragraph of the NYT. Any alternate media that makes an impact on American minds is met with hostility. Blogs, talk radio, cable tv are slowly but surely making progress like termites in an old wooden house. Someday that house will crumble to the ground.
I tend to agree with actus.
And ratso, not that I don’t think the crumbling would be a good thing, what you will have to always keep in mind is the human aspect of news/journalism/broadcasting/writing….
…meaning, after a while, if the bloggers ever supplanted the MSM in some fantasy novel somewhere, many of the dominant blogs would develop the same traits as the dominant media outlets now.
Trust me. It’s human nature.
That being said, I am more inclined to believe that a conservative blogger from humble beginnings has a better chance of surviving success without falling to its trappings than the current liberal crew of journos and broadcastering up-and-comers who appear to be on a mission to save the world from humanity in the name of kindness.
But then, that’s just me.
It will be more than a little interesting in Nashville as I am naturally inclined to observe and scout the crowd judging self-preceptions on the Ego Scale.
We’ll see if I leave Nashville with my current very positive general perception of bloggers largely intact. Probably will, but stranger things have happened.
Cheers.
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