Self Explanatory

[annajaneclare]

A tectonic shift is taking place in our culture, namely the transition from a print/broadcast era in which information, opinion and entertainment is transmitted down a pyramidal social structure, to a pro forma egalitarian web culture in which there is no longer the mediation of a class of editors and opinion-formers, but instead everyone swims

Comments

[chess]

...worryingly, I think I might be his target audience, as I don't really see what is wrong with those paragraphs and was smiling and nodding along, not knowing that the hive mind was against them...

[minny]

Argh, words...!

[buddleia]

LOL, that kind of thing is exciting if you were studying Crit. Theory or English Lit. about eight years ago.

[cloudtrader]

"These developments are the ructions in the informational crust resulting from the underlying tectonic shifts; and it is nowise unexpected that on this delusory levelled media playing field the following equation follows: if anyone can be a celebrity then anyone can be exposed."

That there is my nomination for most inelegant sentence of the year.

On the other hand, as Jon Steward said, I feel better about America now, thanks!

[drbunsen]

Old Media good; New Media bad.
Old Media good; New Media bad.
Old Media good; New Media bad.

Say it often enough and it's almost believable.