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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Monday, October 25, 2004 ::

Revolution?

Jay Rosen over at PressThink has some questions about the radical changes in media--here's the list:

Political attacks seeking to discredit the press and why they're intensifying
Scandals in the news business and the damage they are sowing
The era of greater transparency and what it's doing to modern journalism
Trust in the mainstream media and what's happening to it
Bloggers, their role in politics, their effect on the press: their significance
How the Net explosion is changing the relationship between people and news
The collapse of traditional authority in journalism and what replaces it
Amateurs vs. professionals; distributed knowledge vs. credentialed expertise
The entrance of new players of all kinds in presidential campaigning
The producer revolution underway among former consumers of media
Jon Stewart and why he seems to be more credible to so many
"He said, she said, we said" and why it's such an issue this year
The "reality-based community" thesis and the Bush Administration
The political divide and the passions it has unleashed this year
Why the culture war keeps going, this year reaching the mainstream press
Why periods of intense partisanship coincide with high involvement
The problem of propaganda and the intensity of its practice in 2004
Why argument journalism is more involving than the informational kind
Assaults on the very idea of a neutral observer, a disinterested account
And then there's this: the separate realities of Bush and Kerry supporters

Via Instapundit [>]

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