More comments in the mainstream blog media - By N.L. Belardes
The mainstream is agreeing with the Californian. Why?
Public conversation is good, sure. But categorization?
I can argue that some who blog are really modern day pamphleteerists speaking out with opinion pieces, sometimes with common sense, sometimes not... but the pamphleteers from early America made their way not just into the streets, churches and taverns. They made their way into the newspapers as well... So, for the media to lump folks into an us vs. them categorization... who is the categorization making happy? Why do it? Acceptance? Distancing?
Who slunk the streets of Bakersfield, blogging while the Californian watched, theorized and strategized?
N.L. Belardes, Baketown and Illpressed were the biggest voices... sometimes breaking news stories of murder, fires, music, art and more; but being on the streets while the media, transparent, watched from their brick haven on Eye Street, yet still in print reported their own versions of Bakersfield news; while the public reported theirs...
Ahh, shall we start an argument over the Public Good? Shall we historically define it? How would bloggers have reported on the Boston Massacre? How would they have titled it? Would their accounts have been any different from the skewed British vs. American, Loyalist vs. Whigs media? A fallacy in thought to even consider, yet still... such pamphleteers/bloggers/citizens/rebels/revolutionaries/ of the public good...
I comment on Amy Gahran's article.
Public conversation is good, sure. But categorization?
I can argue that some who blog are really modern day pamphleteerists speaking out with opinion pieces, sometimes with common sense, sometimes not... but the pamphleteers from early America made their way not just into the streets, churches and taverns. They made their way into the newspapers as well... So, for the media to lump folks into an us vs. them categorization... who is the categorization making happy? Why do it? Acceptance? Distancing?
Who slunk the streets of Bakersfield, blogging while the Californian watched, theorized and strategized?
N.L. Belardes, Baketown and Illpressed were the biggest voices... sometimes breaking news stories of murder, fires, music, art and more; but being on the streets while the media, transparent, watched from their brick haven on Eye Street, yet still in print reported their own versions of Bakersfield news; while the public reported theirs...
Ahh, shall we start an argument over the Public Good? Shall we historically define it? How would bloggers have reported on the Boston Massacre? How would they have titled it? Would their accounts have been any different from the skewed British vs. American, Loyalist vs. Whigs media? A fallacy in thought to even consider, yet still... such pamphleteers/bloggers/citizens/rebels/revolutionaries/ of the public good...
I comment on Amy Gahran's article.
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