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| I figured it out |
| 10.04.03 (6:24 pm) [edit] |
Blogs are millions of individuals around the World with computers and Internet connections. They are pretending that they are CNN
Blogs are a big dress-up fantasy/play-act; like playing with Barbie or Action Man or having a secret hut.
Your sitting there in CNN headquarters studio (your bedroom) waiting for a BIG STORY to break. While you wait, you do HUMAN INTEREST STORIES, like your argument with your wife or what you think about global warming or photographs of your stomach. You have links all over the page, because these are your links to YOUR REPORTERS at the scene or YOUR TEAM OF COMMENTATORS or your EXPERT FOR in-depth analysis. You refer to other Bloggers, because you are all colleagues (one big family of INTERNATIONAL news hounds). You have to periodically take COMMERCIAL BREAKS so you can get some sleep or go to work.
“[We] abandon private identity and actually become media (Cineplex mind, IMAX imagination, MTV chat, CNN nerves)”. Kroker- Code Warrior
That is why blogs went crazy (warblogs) during the recent war. It was the BIG STORY that the "media" (Independent and dependent) has wet dreams about.
“My point [is]…democracy as it exists in the modern state is built on the illusion that freedom exists” Jon Stratton- the CC Reader, p730
We have the illusion of power, yet we are powerless. A huge majority of New Zealanders are opposed to GE organisms. We elected a left wing Labour Government. GE is here regardless. The only thing that seems to change is the length of our tether and the amount of feed we are given.
Well, that’s it from Marc and the team at the Desi 402 Today Show. It’s Sunday, October 5. The weather will follow after this commercial break.
(marc)
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