Television is rather passe. If it was any cop, punters would get a balanced view of world events from channels with diverse backing. The media wouldn’t be in the hands of a minority. But heck, TV is old hat. What about the interweb? The punternet?
“Ooooh the cost of publishing is now much lower than it was in the nineteenth century. Everyone can have their say. Isn’t that soooper? We can all have a voice. Even that little chap in Iraq in the middle of a war in which the media is normally another instrument of mass brain damage in the hands of the marauding imperialists”
Not really, no. I think t’internet, as it’s known oop north, has lowered the bar for publishing in terms of both cost and skill. The chap in Iraq might have a really interesting blog – I can’t tell as the URL has an underscore in it. Which some proxy servers, such as the one I use, don’t like. The digital equivalent of wrapping a newspaper in an iron bar, so that only people with very large letterboxes can have it delivered.
The blogging phenomenon just means that things are harder to find under the deluge of crap that is being piped round ever faster in the internet sewer. I should know, I pollute it as often as I can. More turds later.