Today on ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist George Will mocked Time’s choice of "Person of the Year" and blogging generally. "It’s about narcissism," Will said. "So much of what is done on the web is people getting on there and writing their diaries as though everyone ought to care about everyone’s inner turmoils. I mean, it’s extraordinary." ...
Think Progress
You're not just any old George. Your a public figure. Like George Dubya Bush or Jesus H. Christ, you sport a middle initial. You're an opinion maker. You shape the public's perception of national and world events.
Your words are broadcast far and wide via the airwaves, with barrels of ink and train loads of newsprint.
By the media, your ideas are treated with grave respect. As age advances, respect approaches veneration. You are the Walter Lipmann of the age.
Your voice is heard by the people not only throughout the length and breadth of the land but across the world.
Then, through this infernal invention, the Internet, people have started talking back.
Millions of them. A mass demonstation of ignorance, bad spelling, poor grammar, and lamentable construction.
They respect no one. They defer to no one. They do not know their place. Outrageously, some of them are calling you a jerk.
Who, under such circumstances, could conceal a sense of bitterness and betrayal.
I mean, it's extraordinary. And everyone really ought to care about poor Will’s inner turmoils.
Don't mind the blogs: They're all written by idiots (Official Corpo Media Advisory)
Every conceivable belief is on the scene, but the collective prose, by and large, is homogeneous: A tone of careless informality prevails; posts oscillate between the uselessly brief and the uselessly logorrheic; complexity and complication are eschewed; the humor is cringe-making, with irony present only in its conspicuous absence; arguments are solipsistic; writers traffic more in pronouncement than persuasion . ...
Wall Street Journal
So now you know why to stick with the corpo. press. In the great organs of corporate propaganda, ideas are always rigorously censored to exclude "every conceivable belief" other than the those proper for a person of your lowly status to entertain.
The prose is neither "homogeneous", nor "uselessly brief", nor heaven forbid, "logorrheic." And you can expect no "careless informality": at least, when you are being told what to think.
And then the mainstream is so informative. Remember, how they explained about Saddam's WMD, how they warned of Iraq's "drones of death", how if Saddam was not stopped it would all end with a mushroom cloud.
Never are the, for-profit, news media cringe-makingly humorous, yet so rich are they in irony ...
Irony ... ? Ha, irony. Got it. This writer is an ironist. Yes, a terrific put-down of the corporate media.
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