Democratic Talk Radio Blog

Blogs
are vital alternative media sources
By Caroline Kay
Published: February 25 2006 02:00 | Last updated: February 25 2006 02:00

From Ms Caroline Kay.

Sir, Your article on blogs bears no resemblance whatever to the world I see
when I go online (”Time for the last post”, FT Weekend, February 18/19).

I have never visited a gossip blog at all. The blogs I visit are those whose
contributors are lawyers, economists and other academics, political
strategists, media people of various sorts and ordinary citizens
representative of many other occupations.

Some of these people write well and some do not but the ones I read
consistently have ideas that are worth thinking about - ideas that never
would have seen the light of day if we were only allowed to read what the US
corporate media have dished up for our entertainment.

No human can possibly absorb all the informational and disinformational
material available to us now.

There is a huge advantage in having many eyeballs patrolling the sources of
information, many minds with many varieties of experience free to express
their thoughts in an open forum - discussion that is not chosen and/or
edited by people whose living may depend on not offending the powerful.

Maybe since your reporter works for a non-American newspaper he is not
familiar with how our media kowtow to powerful people, refusing to call them
on their obvious lies and hypocrisies.

If we did not have blogs, we might never know about the latest assaults on
truth, and we certainly would not know the details. We assuredly would not
have the audio and video evidence.

None of us individually would have the resources to dig up the stories and
the quotes from the past that often totally debunk what’s being said
currently.

Carolyn Kay,

Chicago, IL 60605, US

Lots more really good stuff at MakeThemAccountable.com
http://makethemaccountable.com/ .

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

Philosophical question: If a Bush commits a crime and no one hears about it,
has a crime really been committed?

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