Blogphobia
Maureen Dowd disses blogs today in her column titled Blah Blah Blog. At first I thought it was a reference to a blog written by new Liberian President Moses Blah. It’s not. Rather, it’s a Dowd piece that asserts the end of blogging is nigh. In her words:
The most telling sign that the Internet is no longer the cool American frontier? Blogs, which sprang up to sass the establishment, have been overrun by the establishment.
In a lame attempt to be hip, pols are posting soggy, foggy, bloggy musings on the Internet. Inspired by Howard Dean’s success in fund-raising and mobilizing on the Web, candidates are crowding into the blogosphere — spewing out canned meanderings in a genre invented by unstructured exhibitionists.
I think the growth of blogging is more a reflection that people have grown tired of the mass media types like Dowd. Blogging allows unfiltered content to be published to a worldwide audience in essentially real time. While the political blogs Dowd discusses in her column may be lame, they are one of the only mediums available to campaigns to get an undiluted message out to the electorate. Maybe Dowd should be more worried about the future of old-media than the future of the Internet and blogging?
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