Danny Gregory has posted a simple, yet incredibly accurate and heartfelt indictment of modern media. I highly encourage everyone to read what he has to say.
In a world where one small cabal decides what we hear on the air (ClearChannel), what music we are allowed to buy in stores (RIAA), and what gets reported as news (TimeWarner), there is an obscene perversion of not only our culture, but our democracy.
There is an incredible vacuum here that the internet could empower someone or some group to fill. The blog community is getting there, but doesn't quite scratch the itch, for reasons that I think are way more complex that simply the lack of centralized editing. The Indymedia affiliates approach from the other end of the spectrum, but still do not quite scratch the itch. I'm not sure what the right solution is, but I'm confident that "the rest of us" will figure it out before Big Media does.
Posted by brent at 10:17