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	<title>Comments on: There is no mainstream media</title>
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	<description>by Jeff Jarvis</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: J</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/11/there-is-no-mainstream-media/#comment-46616</link>
		<dc:creator>J</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 23:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In case somebody fails to follow the Telegraph link, here's a quote from "Alfred Reading", the third commenter on the Telegraph post:

"Behave like an undifferentiated mass of political activitists and you'll be referred to as such"</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case somebody fails to follow the Telegraph link, here&#8217;s a quote from &#8220;Alfred Reading&#8221;, the third commenter on the Telegraph post:</p>
<p>&#8220;Behave like an undifferentiated mass of political activitists and you&#8217;ll be referred to as such&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Glyn</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/11/there-is-no-mainstream-media/#comment-46443</link>
		<dc:creator>Glyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 15:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like his comment "But the blogosphere keeps trying to lump us into a mass." So 'main stream media' doesn't exist but 'the blogosphere' does. How contradictory.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like his comment &#8220;But the blogosphere keeps trying to lump us into a mass.&#8221; So &#8216;main stream media&#8217; doesn&#8217;t exist but &#8216;the blogosphere&#8217; does. How contradictory.</p>
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		<title>By: ashok</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/11/there-is-no-mainstream-media/#comment-46285</link>
		<dc:creator>ashok</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 07:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>His paraphrase gets at how your logic can be twisted. The fact that a newspaper or TV station is an established entity with enormous financial backing, credibility built up by generations past working there and fairly stable readerships until recently - none of that means anything, because he can make a clever argument!

Still, I'm not sold about the blogosphere being an "uncollection." This place is a resounding echo chamber, someone could say. At the time the Lefty blogs were all over Stephen Colbert, I searched the Righty blogs, and found only mentions of hating illegal immigration. Perhaps you're more right about us in the blogosphere being a group of individuals than you know: we act so much so as individuals we never realize when we're parading around our knee-jerk tendencies and falling into line with every cliched, stereotyped and thoughtless position that could be had. Each of us might be creating an echo chamber for himself.

When a conservative blog starts musing about how much damage the Right might have done to the institution of the Presidency by going after Clinton so ruthlessly, and when a Leftist blog starts considering that maybe the nuttiness they see in Evangelicals is maybe part and parcel of having a higher purpose - when I start seeing people put themselves in each other's shoes and reasoning from there - then and only then will I be convinced that the Internet has done something revolutionary.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>His paraphrase gets at how your logic can be twisted. The fact that a newspaper or TV station is an established entity with enormous financial backing, credibility built up by generations past working there and fairly stable readerships until recently - none of that means anything, because he can make a clever argument!</p>
<p>Still, I&#8217;m not sold about the blogosphere being an &#8220;uncollection.&#8221; This place is a resounding echo chamber, someone could say. At the time the Lefty blogs were all over Stephen Colbert, I searched the Righty blogs, and found only mentions of hating illegal immigration. Perhaps you&#8217;re more right about us in the blogosphere being a group of individuals than you know: we act so much so as individuals we never realize when we&#8217;re parading around our knee-jerk tendencies and falling into line with every cliched, stereotyped and thoughtless position that could be had. Each of us might be creating an echo chamber for himself.</p>
<p>When a conservative blog starts musing about how much damage the Right might have done to the institution of the Presidency by going after Clinton so ruthlessly, and when a Leftist blog starts considering that maybe the nuttiness they see in Evangelicals is maybe part and parcel of having a higher purpose - when I start seeing people put themselves in each other&#8217;s shoes and reasoning from there - then and only then will I be convinced that the Internet has done something revolutionary.</p>
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		<title>By: Suebob</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/11/there-is-no-mainstream-media/#comment-46133</link>
		<dc:creator>Suebob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 22:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just curious, Jeff -- do you feel ripped off?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just curious, Jeff &#8212; do you feel ripped off?</p>
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