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Originally Posted by loquitur
I suspect that the net, with its empowerment of individuals, will have a serious disciplinary effect on the entrenched establishment media. It has already started.
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I'd be interested to hear further thoughts on the matter.
Some of mine:
"Empowerment of individuals", via the Internet.
Depends what your definition of "empower" is.
Or if empowerment is the correct term to begin with.
Some might say the internet disempowers individuals.
Some might say the internet is an inherently divisive medium.
In some aspects, I see the internet informational arena as an ideological prison system.
People enter and are self-segregated based upon political orientation.
In my experience, the internet encourages people to filter their information to an extent impossible in the age of network news/print media.
Therefore, exposure to new or different ideas is potentially minimized.
This "net segregation" could stand in contrast to the theory of individual empowerment.
The internet could possibly be a tool for closing minds instead of opening them.
Something else:
I notice that the old guard of print journalism in America is merging ever more fully into the segregated internet environment.
Major newspapers are becoming glorified, overstaffed, partisan blogs.
Therefore becoming part of the mind-closing experience.
host, I am for a free and open press. Whatever that is these days.