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March 21, 2007
The journalism vs bloggers debate could be undercut by the boring NSW election. This election is primarily concerned with who is better in terms of the management and delivery of services. If the Lemma Government is on the nose, then so are the Liberals. It's LibLab recycled yet again. It is becoming taken for granted that the state government in NSW is corrupt and incompetent, if not dysfunctional.
Alan Moir
Dissatisfaction with the incumbents isn't enough: voters need some evidence that the opposition would do better.
So how could the old journalism vs bloggers divide be undercut? Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine says that we have two models of the media: centralized and decentralized.
Journalism as a part of the media sees itself owning audiences. The SMH markets itself to get me to come to its site. Then it feeds me as much advertising as they can, until you leave and go elsewhere. That’s the centralized model of media. But bloggers are not an audience and we are not owned. Google understands this. They bring their services to my own personalized homepage. This introduces a decentralized media ecosystem.
Glenn Greenwald argues that one of the core functions bloggers could perform is to battle against the cliched narratives and reflexive mindset the media has relied upon for two decades now in determining which stories they select to cover and what they say about those stories. He says this refers to:
how the national media depicts political movements and the assumptions embedded in how they referee our country's political discourse. The point here -- as always -- is to try to force the media to write about the stories it covers in a more critical and factual manner, to compel them to abandon the cheap and lazy cliches that otherwise frame everything they write. That is one of the most critical functions of blogs, and it is one of the goals that is realistically attainable by bloggers and their readers working together.
Bloggers could question the conservative media hunts the Left under beds, in university corridors, everywhere elites gather to swap their dangerous opinions and fills their columns’ with their endless fake rage and challenge the conservative machines tactics of setting up fake controversies to mask the real ones.
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Reminds me of the other day, whilst watching Conroy eulogising broadband at the press club on telly.
Half way through these proceedings, up hops a scowling Milne at the Murdoch table, demanding to know what a Labor government would do crush "slander" on the internet, especially Crikey ( slander apparently meaning any questioning of people like Milne as to their aims or assertions ).
The Poison Dwarf to control an expanded Reich ministry of Propaganda?