Related: Read this from The Lex Files. Lex concludes, "If you love our country, you will find the trends he (Bill Moyers) describes deeply troubling."
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Getting the "big head" can be as dangerous as not having one warns Jarvis and others, "I just hope that bloggers aren't seduced by the scoop and the gotcha as Big Media has been". (via CBS News Marketwatch ID required... via brother Keith in KY)
Amen. Blogs should consider themselves to be in skeptical partnership with Big Media, not a replacement for same.
Jay Rosen put it this way in the article, "Citizens' media compliments Big Media with fact-checking and challenges, and with new sources of news, information and diverse viewpoints. Together, they will improve news."
To put the whole thing in persective, David Sifry is compiling "a comprehensive timeline of when weblogs had a significant impact on politics". The list has only six national and international entries so far, but they are impressive.
Now, on the local level, blogs are also having an impact... it is just more subtle and (so far) unattributed.
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