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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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:: Sunday, June 05, 2005 ::
"Blogging won't wipe out journalism, for the simple reason that journalism requires skills and resources that bloggers will never have."
John Naughton, The Observer
Umm...blogging is journalism - on steroids - and what it will "wipe out" is all the pretentious, inacurate, agendized bloviating by the likes of - well - Dan Rather. As their circulation numbers free-fall, as viewership disappears, so-called main-stream-media will die with a whimper. A child born today will not suffer the media of my father's generation. American Digest gives 'em five years. I'd say that's pretty optimistic.
[Oops, except for public TV and Radio of course; in five years they'll still be bloviating but we won't be watching or listening - we'll just be paying for it...]
Update: It's happening before their very eyes...
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