See Firedoglake post here. As I've said before, my whole take on the blogosphere has changed. I've lost a tremendous amount of respect for bloggers I used to respect and enjoy reading--now I don't even bother to visit their sites anymore. (Love the hyenas, from the post.)
We here in the blogosphere often rain contempt on the media for how they run in packs; for how they repeat the wisdom of the "village", a self anointed group of a few hundred key people who think that their opinion is the same as the opinions of America, which is why they constantly go on about what Americans want in ways that are completely disconnected from poll results or reality. The "center" to the village, is the consensus opinion of the Village.
We like to think we're better than them. That we see through the BS, that we are more objective—that we're not as insular or addicted to our predetermined storylines as they are. That we are independent and willing to strike out on our own, not addicted to the cover of the pack, not playing high-school games of in-groups and out, of dominance and hierarchy, of cool-kids and outcasts.
If only it were so. Oh, I suppose we aren't quite as bad as them. There are a few more mavericks. There is more truth telling about certain things.
But when the pack decides on a storyline, we're as good at sticking to it as they are and of refusing to see either contrary evidence or why the other side feels as it does as the media is.
This primary season has to have dispelled the myth of the objective blogosphere that doesn't drink the kool-aid. If it hasn't, it certainly should have. The majority of the blogosphere became pro-Obama and savagely so, so much so that many major bloggers will tell you with a straight face that nothing misogynistic has ever come from the Obama campaign. . . .
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