Traditional Mainstream Media vs. Blogs - Which is in Danger?
There are times when you read about, or see, disparate (different) pieces of information, which then connect in your mind and lead to a new idea or conclusion.
This, for me, was an example of one of those times.
Firstly - we see reported on the web (on the website of a mainstream media (or “MSM”) organisation) an article about American media vs the blogs. I am more interested in the mechanism and dynamics of what happened rather than the content, sad as it was. The article on the BBC website basically was looking at the differences in ‘reporting’ between mainstream media and bloggers, using the discussion on comments made by Eason Jordan about American military “targetting” (killing) journalists in Iraq as the basis for the article. A blogsite Eastongate.com was quickly put up by one group to air the view of the persons who objected to Mr Jordan’s alleged comments at Davos. Note that I said “the view of the persons” not ‘the views of the bloggers’. The blog was essentially a (very effective one it seems) tool for people, not ‘bloggers’, to express their strong disagreement of Mr Jordan’s comments. They could have picketed the CNN offices, and a few by passers may have noticed; they could have got on American national television, and be quickly forgotten because of television viewer’s typically short attention span; or they could have setup a weblog, they made the weblog. Mr Jordan resigned. Whether as a result of the blog swarm which drove the MSM media crazy or not we don’t know - but resigned he has.
