Saturday, November 08, 2003
"A KIND OF TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AGORA"
Over at City Journal, Brian Anderson has a superb review of how three things -- cable TV, the blogosphere and non-leftist book publishing -- have begun to have a dramatic impact on the previous hammer-lock the Left had on media and public opinion in the U.S.
The Left’s near monopoly over the institutions of opinion and information—which long allowed liberal opinion makers to sweep aside ideas and beliefs they disagreed with, as if they were beneath argument—is skidding to a startlingly swift halt.
Well worth reading for someone like me who is only intermittently connected to the world of pop culture. I found the discussion of "South Park Republicans" particularly telling, since it described how the new media are expressing a different kind of youthful and more libertarian reaction to the Left in America.
The quote in the title to this post comes from Anderson's discussion of the development of the blogosphere and its increasing impact on public life. A wonderful insight, the blogosphere is in fact the very agora of ideas that the early pioneers of the Internet envisioned.
(via Arts and Letters Daily, which also gets a mention.)
GB, THHotA
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