tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post6926888109097133888..comments2023-09-22T06:22:50.820-06:00Comments on Ken Chapman: Believing is Seeing in Politics and Lifekenchapmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-71457296009564630052009-01-05T21:14:00.000-07:002009-01-05T21:14:00.000-07:00I hope you are right about newspapers too Archie. ...I hope you are right about newspapers too Archie. And very few blogs report and some on rare occasoin break news. They are colour commentators on the source stories, usually provided by newspapers. I know that is how I operate. <BR/><BR/>Newspapers will soon not be in print form, except at a premium price, I expect. Printing costs and circulation must be a growing hassle thzat will one day just disappear.<BR/><BR/>I think newspapers will be important as sources of information diversity and nd disaggregators of the agent bots of the Web 3.0 world. If we only get news on things we ask for and you only get exposed to the "news" you "want", that will make the "believing is seeing" narrowness worse. <BR/><BR/>With web based information aggregation and delivery we may come to know more about less stuff and be much less informed overall and less capable of seeing nuance and differences and implications. It will make seeing another point of view even more difficult. <BR/><BR/>That trend and conclusion will make us funtionally and informationally isolated. No way to run a diverse and complex society or global village.kenchapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-84440346706784641592009-01-05T18:02:00.000-07:002009-01-05T18:02:00.000-07:00"...According to Pew Research, [the internet] is r..."...According to Pew Research, [the internet] is ranked as the #2 new source now, behind TV and ahead of newspapers."<BR/><BR/>Hi Ken -- don't count us out yet. I assume that many of the people getting their news online get it from newspaper websites. And what would Drudge, Bourque and the HuffPost be without newspapers to link to?<BR/><BR/>The industry is going through tough times, but for many young journalists the internet is an exciting tool both for reporting and telling stories.<BR/><BR/>I hope the MSM will be able to fill the void you're talking about by:<BR/>1) Digging up new information about what's going on in the world. I follow lots of blogs, but very few do actual reporting.<BR/>2) Helping aggregate that mass of information you're talking about and<BR/>3) Mediating some of the polarized debate out there.<BR/><BR/>A tall (impossible?) order, but I think we're in the best position to try. Having more voices out there is great, but it doesn't mean newspapers are done as a top source of news. Reports of our death have, I hope, been greatly exaggerated (h/t to Mark Twain).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-70291617648295304652009-01-04T15:30:00.000-07:002009-01-04T15:30:00.000-07:00The newspapers as a reporter of news have been bec...The newspapers as a reporter of news have been becoming more and more disaapointing every year. For as long as I can remember it seemed that they thought their role was to influence people to the "correct way" rather than simply report. As a 50 year old person who has read newpaers for many years I now refer to blogs and the internet for not only information but also opinions on all sides of the issues of the day.<BR/><BR/>The journal has had a number of people like Gunter that realy believed they were enlightened and that the reader was just a sap who should be fortunate they are around to do our thinking for us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-58832278178989692972009-01-04T15:14:00.000-07:002009-01-04T15:14:00.000-07:00Ken: The MSM, on both sides of the editorial divid...Ken: The MSM, on both sides of the editorial divide, seems intent on steering us towards a more polarized political consciousness. Whether it be Lorne and Michael Coren, or the CBC's insistence during the last federal campaign that the only blogs worth reading were of the rabid partisan variety, the reality seems to be that our traditional sources for information are now trying to steer the debate, rather than simply reporting on the issues in an unbiased way. They seem to want to be the next Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera or Tucker Carlson.<BR/><BR/>The height of wisdom, it's been said, is in knowing what it is that you do not know. The fire-breathing partisans, on all sides of the issues, steadfastly refuse to concede that there is ANYTHING that they do not know - and certainly, the PM is a prime example of this. It's only when we, as an electorate, choose to more fully engage on the issues and demand better of our candidates and media, or find better candidates and alternative media sources such as blogs that we will have the opportunity to make informed choices and vote FOR a candidate, rather than continuing the current trend towards regional and demographic isolationism and strolling down the road to the "2 solitudes" ("I hate the Democrats" and "I hate the GOP") that we see Down South.Enlightened Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17872131888278838737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-38124728549008987312009-01-04T14:49:00.000-07:002009-01-04T14:49:00.000-07:00Where will the wisdom come from to help us make se...<I>Where will the wisdom come from to help us make sense of all those inputs?</I><BR/><BR/>Nietzsche said that 'God was dead' and that we will all have to become 'our own authorization'. That world is now here is what I believe you are saying...John Princehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05745039414992084651noreply@blogger.com