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Atlas Mugged: How a Gang of Scrappy, Individual Bloggers Broke the Stranglehold of the MSM
The Atlas Society ^
| Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
Posted on 09/23/2007 8:05:31 AM PDT by shove_it
The twentieth century was the high point of mass cultureor the overculture as some call it. Any culture that could produce Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and The Honeymooners cant be all bad.
But eventually, the connection between media elites and their audiences began to fracture. Though apocryphal, the line frequently attributed to Pauline Kael of the New Yorker in 1972 sums up the growing chasm between the overcultureparticularly the mediaand its audience: I dont know how Nixon won. No one I know voted for him.
Just as the Big Three car manufacturers, with a once-monolithic hold on American consumers, seemed unaware that the public wanted a wider choice of cars (until Japan listened and responded), Pauline Kaels in-crowd of coastal elites has, if anything, become even more clueless and resistant to emerging changes in the culture and dissemination of information.
How clueless? In 2004, Jonathan Klein, the former executive vice president of CBS News, described blogging as a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing. Last May, Time-Warner CEO Richard Parsons was quoted as saying, The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation. They will lose this war if they go to war. The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion. ...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: msm; newmedia; pajamahadeen
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To: romanesq
“some technical proficiency for its time.”
Big deal, he used a model during that ridiculously celebrated shot from stage to theater ceiling.
(Yawn).
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posted on
09/23/2007 9:37:20 AM PDT
by
spanalot
To: Reily
I look back on the journalism students I knew in college and you would be hard-pressed to find another group of students less interested in acquiring knowledge. The impression I get is that they're less concerned about understanding what they're reporting about, than in displaying skill in spinning the story to achieve political goals ("changing the world" messianic complex)
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posted on
09/23/2007 9:46:19 AM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
To: shove_it
The funny thing is, after reading newspapers all my life, I'm surprised how little I miss them.
Every once in awhile, I pick one up out of nostalgia and shake my head that they are still in business with the content they provide.
Now if I can just get a laptop small enough to take into the "library" in the morning.....
Cheers,
knewshound
http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/
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posted on
09/23/2007 9:47:43 AM PDT
by
knews_hound
(In order to not be banned, I no longer discuss Politics here.)
To: neodad
The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation. They will lose this war if they go to war.Stupid comparison. The Sioux may have won the battle, but they LOST THE WAR!
The perfect picture of the old media's combination of arrogance and ignorance. And this is from the CEO of the company who couldn't find a way to usher the largest internet company in the world into the broadband market.
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posted on
09/23/2007 9:56:36 AM PDT
by
Ghengis
(Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
To: shove_it
To: Fiji Hill
LOLOLOLOL! He seems to think that the Sioux won the war against the imperialistic white man. I'm not entirely surprised; every interview of Parsons I've read show him to be 90% moonbat, 10% CEO - and 100% socialist affirmative action baby. Is it any wonder that Time-Warner has had such stellar performance under his leadership?
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posted on
09/23/2007 12:11:45 PM PDT
by
TrueKnightGalahad
(Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Viking Kitties!)
To: spanalot
To be fair, there were at least several technical advances in cinema making.
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posted on
09/23/2007 12:13:20 PM PDT
by
romanesq
To: shove_it; elfman2
Good call. I too was wondering why forums were not included in the article.The article makes a reference to Rathergate, but doesn't mention that this was accomplished on a forum (this forum), rather than a blog.
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posted on
09/23/2007 12:23:57 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(IF TREASON IS THE QUESTION, THEN MOVEON.ORG IS THE ANSWER!)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Good point. I’ll try to contact the author of this article or the editor of the Atlas Society. Do you have a link to the FR thread that exposed Rathergate? As I recall, the typewriter snafu was exposed on LGF which is mentioned in the article.
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posted on
09/23/2007 12:42:06 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(old Old Guardsman)
To: shove_it
There were threads about this as recently as yesterday, I’ve been up for 20 hours, suggest you search on ‘Rather’.
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posted on
09/23/2007 1:03:14 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(IF TREASON IS THE QUESTION, THEN MOVEON.ORG IS THE ANSWER!)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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posted on
09/23/2007 1:04:20 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(old Old Guardsman)
To: Quix
Ping to this thread, it’s a good ‘un.
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posted on
09/23/2007 1:36:28 PM PDT
by
Joya
To: shove_it
Dear Mr. Parsons,
Why don’t you ask Time-Warner stockholders if they like the idea of sharing the fate of the “Sioux Nation”????
Custer’s defeat was just a temporary (though bloody) setback for the US Cavalry.
But I don’t think any analogies to cavalry and Sioux work too well when contemplating the rise of the blogosphere and the complacent old MSM......
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posted on
09/23/2007 1:40:22 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Current Democrat war-fighting motto: "bleat, cheat, defeat, and retreat")
To: romanesq
“To be fair, there were at least several technical advances in cinema making.”
Do you recall what the others were besides the long vertical shot?
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posted on
09/23/2007 2:08:40 PM PDT
by
spanalot
To: Psycho_Bunny
I quit years ago. What a self indulgent POS.
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posted on
09/23/2007 2:14:20 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(in the halls of Valhalla...)
To: Buckhead; shove_it; Lucius Cornelius Sulla
ping Buckhead
Anything you’d care to contribute to this thread or say to the author of the article?
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posted on
09/23/2007 2:58:13 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(old Old Guardsman)
To: knews_hound
I checked out your blog, and that was a great letter you sent to the Sac (”the sac”)..
To: knews_hound
The funny thing is, after reading newspapers all my life, I'm surprised how little I miss them.Exactly. Thanks for the link to your blog.
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posted on
09/23/2007 3:16:48 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: spanalot
Honestly I couldn’t list them. I saw the movie once and that was enough.
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posted on
09/23/2007 3:21:53 PM PDT
by
romanesq
To: shove_it
“We are the Sioux nation. They will lose this war if they go to war.”
OOPS!
Custer brought bigger weapons this time...
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posted on
09/23/2007 3:22:34 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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