Does the Web Deserve The Power It Gained To Influence Politics?
I’ll make the obvious WTF comment here. You might as well ask does the mainstream media deserve the power?
Those enlessly played clips showing Rev. Jeremiah Wright making controversial racial statements, Sen. Obama told an interviewer, aren’t representative of the man. “I don’t want to suggest that somehow, the loops you have been seeing typifies the services all the time,” Sen. Obama said. “That is the danger of the YouTube era. It doesn’t excuse what he said. But it gives it some perspective.”
I’d submit that a majority of Americans don’t even know what YouTube is. Take the people who do know about YouTube, subtract all of the people who haven’t seen the video and then subtract the non-voters. You’ve got a very, very small number of people who have seen the video and care.
Contrast this with, say, Fox. How many people have see the tiny soundbite of the Rev. Wright on Fox or another mainstream media outlet? Now tell me who has the power.
The web does have power, I’ll give you that. But MSM is being disingenuous when it questions that power without looking at their own.
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