Sunday, March 27, 2005
Returning for a Grudge Match
You are known best by who declares himself your enemy—not as comforting a thought as it might be
It is a demonstration of the effectiveness of blogs in the last presidential campaign that John Kerry has sided with MSM to stamp out the voices of the citizens.
KERRY: “There has been a profound and negative change in the relationship of America’s media with the American people. ...something has happened in the way in which we are talking to each other and who is arbitrating the truth in American politics. ...when there are false choices presented and there is no arbitrator, we have a problem."
Whoa! Guess I’m such a dunderhead that I thought the truth was to be arbitrated by the American citizens, not hand-selected and re-packaged for us by *whoever*.
But I now see that the falure of the American voter to comprehend the capital ‘T’ Truth and elect Swiftie Kerry is evidence that we are, indeed, toodamdumb and require an arbiter to ‘splain it all to us. Hey, Johnny-Orange [oh yes, we do not forget] might as well repeal that silly 1st Amendment and get me another beer while you’re up.
"The mainstream media, over the course of the last year, did a pretty good job of discerning. But there’s a subculture and a sub-media that talks and keeps things going for entertainment purposes rather than for the flow of information. And that has a profound impact and undermines what we call the mainstream media of the country. And so the decision-making ability of the American electorate has been profoundly impacted as a consequence of that. The question is, what are we going to do about it?"
Aaah yes, the sacred flow of information must never be sullied by mere amusement.... Dam your eyes, AllahPundit! [wherever you are] and anyone else with a sense of humor. Yes, the decision making ability of the Great American Electorate—that steaming mass of unwashed and undisciplined humanity—has been utterly obliterated by the horrifying effects of the ...er, voice of the Great American Electorate.
Dang—Kerry is as good as he ever was*.... Onward! What do we do?!?
I think part of what we have to do is have an impact on the economics. The corporatization of the media in America has taken away some of the willingness of the media to do the great muckraking they used to do and to be the accountability folks they used to be. And so you have so many different media outlets that are just bottom-line, and they go where the ratings tell them to go. And there’s a top-down hierarchical administration of what they’ll go after and what they’ll do, and it’s driven by the economics more than anything. I think if we were to change the economics a little bit through grassroots effort, then you might begin to see a shift.
Lemme run this by me again. MSM, which “did a pretty good job of discerning,” and the undermining of which you fear is being caused by nefarious “sub-culture and submedia” has sold out to the corporate bottom line and abandoned its “muckraking” and “accountability”. So what we do to remedy that is turn to "grassroots efforts” [like blogs], which are the sub-culture sub-media “that talks and keeps things going for entertainment purposes rather than for the flow of information.”
Astounding.
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[the thought is proposed… Instead of the fleet-footed bullshit artisté and consummate betrayer of fealty we have thought him, perhaps Kerry is simply --how does one put this in the mainstream media?- special needs. ]
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