home

On Washington Elitism and the Media

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Thu Aug 25, 2005 at 07:40:09 PM EST
Tags: (all tags)
Share This: Digg! StumbleUpon del.icio.us reddit reddit

Digby's on fire - again. All of Digby's writing this summer has been exceptional - this is one of my favorites.

The time is coming when the Washington Press Corps, the Administration and even the networks won't dictate the stories and the slant of coverage. There are too many bloggers now ready to swarm, like a fly on the Administration's neck. They may swat us, but we will just show up again, on its arm, its shoulder, its cheek. They can't control the Cindy Sheehan stories, the takeover of our judiciary, the debacle of the War in Iraq and the War on Drugs. We are gaining.

< Learning From Poker Boot Camp | Hurricane Katrina Lands at Miami-Broward Border >

  • The Online Magazine with Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news

  • Contribute To TalkLeft


    • On Washington Elitism and the Media | 3 comments (3 topical)
    Re: On Washington Elitism and the Media (none / 0) (#1)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:45 PM EST
    Great piece, sizziling on fire. While they are playing croquet, Judy Miller Queen of Hearts, the elites all busily acting anglo saxon, the blogs, down and dirty, can link us together to produce a jaw dropping tsunami. They can't take it away from us, or can they? The internet as it is today poses a major threat to the power elite, and they are noticing.

    Re: On Washington Elitism and the Media (none / 0) (#2)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:46 PM EST
    Juan Cole has an excellent piece in salon and points to others in his blog. He also puts it nicely: "It is a 21st century irony that a virtual magazine reflects the realities of Iraq, whereas many "real" magazines and newspapers carry Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld fantasies." Cole

    Re: On Washington Elitism and the Media (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:02:46 PM EST
    Blogs are exciting to me in the way it must have been exciting to pre/post Revolution Americans to leave their homes and find a plethora of newspapers and one page current events papers being sold in the streets. The questionable writing skills and bias's displayed by the publishers of early American newspapers are outweighed by the diversity of opinion. I am fortunate to work somewhere that has access to databases that have scanned some of these newspapers, and when I compare them to what is happening on the left and right of the blogosphere it is incredibly surprising to see the similarities. I have to admit I don't think the diversity of thought and opinion expressed freely here in the U.S. could happen anywhere else in the world.

    On Washington Elitism and the Media | 3 comments (3 topical)