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Mickey Z
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Why Blogs?
With an innumerable amount of flashy, take-forever-to-load mainstream websites teeming with must-read items about pseudo-people like Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise, Bill O’Reilly, and Michael Moore...why do so many bother maintaining a blog that’s read by (maybe) 75 outcasts?
In some ways, blogs—an epigrammatic name that encompasses an ever-widening aggregation of personal websites dedicated to a fabulously broad range of subject matter—have replaced the dog-eared notebook into which we scribbled our deepest thoughts...shunning attention, fearing perhaps, we were alone. Now, with a blog-inspired sense of community, many of us are baring our souls and finding that others share the same concerns—something we could never discover from traditional media outlets.
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Juan Gonzalez sez: “So few journalists today have ever had to make a living through real manual labor that they fail to appreciate those millions of Americans who still perform factory work, fail to grasp how critical such labor still is to the modern lifestyle we take for granted.”
Ben Bagdikian sez: “Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach’s ‘St. Matthew Passion’ on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience, and for the performer.”
Hippolyte de Villemessant (founder of Le Figaro) sez: “A journalist whose writing does not stir up either a duel or a lawsuit is a bad journalist.”
Norman Mailer sez: “There is an odor to any press headquarters that is unmistakable: the unavoidable smell of flesh burning quietly and slowly in the service of a machine.”
Malcolm X sez: “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
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