04-01-2011, 04:15 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:This episode convinced me that the blogosphere really did not want to change anything. They just wanted to tweak the MSM ever so slightly.
The American public exists in a relationship with its media and government where it is happy not hearing the democratic truths it needs to hear in order to take responsibility. It's called "Philistinism". A natural human tendency where those who present pre-chewed, smooth-edged information saying what the public wants to hear are given a much warmer reception than those who present raw truth. American democracy is, really, a failed attempt at making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. While the internet has given birth to new refreshing edges in free speech and democracy it has been accompanied by some of the worst tyrants of the modern day in the form of internet moderators and site owners who can censor and discriminate at will. The public will welcome free speech and democracy up to the point where they can't ignore it anymore. However once you force them to confront the truth where they actually have to do something about it you'll find them less receptive if not outright hostile.