Reply #43: Magazines and high profile [View All]

[PATRICK]

commit the fallacy of self importance where the featured, paid and "select" writers can have an influential voice far inferior to the expert DISCUSSION one can get for free on the Net.

The bright side is having RFK jr. being able to shout out what for years we mice have been squeaking. The dark side ascendant means that an online article or print punditry gathers the chirping or carping comments attached to editorials and comments that have something far less than second class forum status for the public mind.

Any discredited lie or nonsense in the MSM, in the headliner, the pundit column, the bloviator, the "authority" can be simply repeated because of this prestigious position. It is not a discussion but a rigged "king of the hill" where the moderators sit somewhere in DC or corporate boardrooms hiring lackeys to be the invisible gatekeepers of political utility not truth. Online, the bias of the site owner and moderators reaps its just desserts more directly and easily. It is all out there and truth can get out and out more fairly- in true debate, criticism, growth and communal sharing.

The latter has sped up the process of the public resistance to lies that otherwise are self-regenerating in the murk.