Bloggers Who Crave the Mainstream Media's Attention
By Christopher Hayes, ChrisHayes.org
Posted on May 4, 2007, Printed on May 4, 2007
The strange thing about the netroots, and something that was made very clear to me at YearlyKos, is that the prominent members of the blogosphere have a real deep complex about their relationship to the “mainstream.” Their feelings (again, generalizing) towards the mainstream pundits, TNR, Joe Klein, Tim Russert et al, is similar to the way a pimply, awkward 14-year-old-boy might feel about the hot, mean girl in his class. He judges her harshly, thinks she’s vapid and cruel, and desperately wants her attention.
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Sorry it's off-topic a bit, but I was wondering...
... DO you see any similarity to last night's GOP pre-primary debate in SIMI VALLEY (of Rodney King fame) and Ronald Reagan's first major presidential campaign speech in Philadelpha, MS?
I'm not sure if it's that I'm just hardwired to see something insidious in everything they do, but in '96 I noticed that Bob Dole was constantly sending warm-fuzzies to the white power militia movement, and it seemed as if the white people I knew were all saying, "Oh, yeah, Dole's a really moderate, statesman-like Republican." I, of course, wondered if I was losing my marbles, because I vividly remember Dole saying something like, "We have to ask ourselves how federal regulations got so onerous good, law-abiding Americans feel they need to take the law into their own hands." I mean, after Oklahoma City and rashes of bomb attacks or bomb threats to federal employees. And so I hunted and hunted for some documentation of that quote, and I couldn't.
So feel free to speculate that I'm just hallucinating,...
nice abstraction of the theme James...,
i tend to take it for granted that you humans intentionally and unintentionally project your true selves through your choices of symbolism/avatar...., ALL THE TIME!!!
oops, my bad...,
I thought I was on the virtual rape thread, sorry P6 - no threadjacking intended, f'real....,
I Guess That Explains
all the whining. "Look at me! Look at me!" Grow a pair!
I thought I was on the
Well, you weren't the first...
I really don't want to be but so anal retentive about it...I keep hoping not to have to think about it anymore.
Chris Hayes' Point
I think a lot of black folks are quite familiar with the situation that Hayes describes. I think it often occurs when we are in a meeting in which there are only one or two black people present and one of them expresses a good idea that is generally ignored by the group until a non-black person who is not Hispanic or Asian makes the same suggestion five or ten minutes later. At that point the group almost invariably picks up on the suggestion and begins talking about it as if it had never been expressed until someone who is not black, Hispanic or Asian said it.
James: I barely watched the
James:
I barely watched the Democratic debate...I saw no reason at all to watch the Republican one.
I found Dole's official list of '96 campaign speeches on the Wayback Machine. Don't know if that will help. I glanced at a few and found them too vapid to be racist.
The media are like old men afraid of young people
From the first post. I think the author is trying to make bloggers look insignificant and insecure, like 14 year olds. A lot of bloggers just don't like mainstream media because it is biased plain and simple. Maybe we are looking at them the way humans look at cavemen running into a tree. We wonder why they are doing what they are doing and when they will learn something different and change their ways. They are losing their footing and they know it. Thats why there are news tickers, 24 hour stations, and news commentary programs. Thats why the insist on stupid live broadcasts. Because they want to keep their viewers who are getting their news off the internet. Thats why cable companines now want ways to make more money of the internet and control it. The media are like old men trying to fight off their eventual demise and they are afraid of the young people who are ready and waiting to replace them.