Via Althouse, yet another blog hit piece.
What Golding demonstrated – and what we’re witnessing as the Blogosphere’s offspring multiply – is that people tend to abuse power when it is unearned and will bring down others to enhance themselves. Likewise, many bloggers seek the destruction of others for their own self-aggrandizement. When a mainstream journalist stumbles, they pile on like so many savages, hoisting his or her head on a bloody stick as Golding’s children did the fly-covered head of a butchered sow.
Schadenfreude – pleasure in others’ misfortunes – has become the new barbarity on an island called Blog. When someone trips, whether Dan Rather or Eason Jordan or Judith Miller, bloggers are the bloodthirsty masses slavering for a public flogging. Incivility is their weapon and humanity their victim.
I mean no disrespect to the many brilliant people out there – professors, lawyers, doctors, philosophers, scientists and other journalists who also happen to blog. Again, they know who they are. But we should beware and resist the rest of the ego-gratifying rabble who contribute only snark, sass and destruction.
We can’t silence them, but for civilization’s sake – and the integrity of information by which we all live or die – we can and should ignore them.
Translation: “The peasants are revolting!” (using both definitions of the word).
Maybe the writer of the offending article doesn’t realize that it’s THE MSM’s CUSTOMERS that are in revolt and that their product is flawed, insular, and antiquated.
There are bloggers like Kos, for example, who fit the description. Somehow, I doubt that is what he had in mind.
Now people can get their voices heard in spite of the MSM.
Obviously given the diversity one man’s blog is another’s LATimes.
A bit of an exageration given some of the stuff that appears in the NYT as it spins/fabricates situations to accord with its agenda.
Just ask Mediacrity, Honest Reporting et al.
Sounds a bit like the “sour grapes” ‘pyjamas’ comment we heard some time back.
At least a lot of bloggers provide links to their facts and don’t hide their own opinions in imaginary nameless govt., officials, experts and specialists on pain of being fisked out of existence.
How many of those “self-policing” actions of the MSM started because some bloggers detected a reporter lying? Dan Rather, call your office. The bloggers force the MSM to pull up its socks and start policing things that in the past they would have covered up or not even noticed. Some are branching out into reporting now, and the aristos are getting nervous.