[shrinkermd]

The author may or may not have a reasonable opinion on the Internet; however, he is not a liberal. See this paragraph from the book review:

..."This book, which grew out of a controversial essay published last year by The Weekly Standard, is a shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political gatekeepers and replace experts with the “wisdom of the crowd.” Although Mr. Keen wanders off his subject in the later chapters of the book — to deliver some generic, moralistic rants against Internet evils like online gambling and online pornography — he writes with acuity and passion about the consequences of a world in which the lines between fact and opinion, informed expertise and amateurish speculation are willfully blurred..."

[goldstategop]

There are elitists on our side too. I detest them all.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[vetsvette]

The fact that the preceding essay appeared in the “Weekly Standard” does little to convince me that Keen isn’t a liberal at heart — the Weekly Standard is overrun by Neo-Cons, which are little but partially reformed liberals. They’re partially reformed in that they remain social liberals in large part, eschewing only the socially “progressive” positions that conflict with their personal religious ideology.

I don’t dislike Bill Kristol or Fred Barnes, but neither is a true conservative. They, like the President, are liberals with some conservative views. If the English language hadn’t been so badly mangled by the left, we would call them moderates — but we can’t.

As for Keen, he may or may not be of the same ilk as Barnes and Kristol, but he certainly is an elitist, which is almost as bad as being a flaming liberal.

[KarlInOhio]

he writes with acuity and passion about the consequences of a world in which the lines between fact and opinion, informed expertise and amateurish speculation are willfully blurred..."

Yeah, we need to put a stop to that and go back to when the only news worth knowing came from the NY Times.