Why not? Hey, you may be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby -- how do you know you’re not? If Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband could be the baby’s father, so could you.
In other news, the mainstream media continues to fail to understand the revolting-peasants importance of bloggers. I don’t mean that categorization to be derogatory -- I mean it to indicate a role as revolutionaries bringing down the hegmony of the corporate media.
Get this: Reuters today had the gall to call the bloggish outrage over the nonstop cable-news coverage of the death of a Playboy bunny as “pseudonymous savagery [that] passes for informed commentary on the Web,” while stating that this “cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.”
“Respectful shock.” The salacious ravaging of the dead woman and her orphaned baby and every vicious question about drug abuse, suicide attempts, torrid love affairs, nude modeling, and every other instance of self-abuse this woman put herself through in the name of fame... this is “respectful shock.” While those who mock the media’s obsession with this are “cruel.”
Meanwhile, what is Reuters’ top story in U.S. news at the moment? “High school remembers Anna Nicole -- barely.”
Yeah, respectful shock.
I’m with blogger Roger Ailes:
I worry that our cable networks lack sufficient resources to cover both the death of Anna Nicole Smith and the diaper-wearing astronaut story at the same time.
But bloggers are on the job. Think Progress has a hilarious -- yet bitterly sad -- video compilation on the excess of the mainstrea media (cool: CNN’s Jack Cafferty is totally on our side!). And while not specifically prompted by the ANS debacle, the Corrente post on how Time magazine misrepresents bloggers is worth a look-see, as is the a diary at Daily Kos that reminds us how the phamphleteers of the American Revolution were very like today’s bloggers:
The major media, who have in so many cases become far too smug, far too lazy, and far too weak to do the job of a vital democratic press, will point to the blogosphere and dismiss it as a cesspool of unpedigreed shouters, and their dismissal will give cover to those who want to crack down on the dirty bloggers. And yes, there's nastiness, and yes there's anonymity and pseudonymity and anyone with a computer and a grudge can join in. And yet, and yet.And yet, it won't be the first time history is forged in such disreputable discourse.
Is it time for a new declaration of independence? Not that I’d dare to compare myself to Thomas Jefferson or anything, I think I’ll work on that...
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