[lbo-talk] MSM and blogosphere

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Sun Sep 4 15:09:12 PDT 2005


From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>


> I thought MSM was a cliche of the blogosphere.

It is, but the blogosphere is to the current right what the underground press->alt.weekly was to the late countercultural left. (This is the rough form of a more nuanced argument--it's quite imprecise as is. Specifically, the underground press was countercultural in nature--the alt.weeklies are much less so. The blogosphere (I've used that word three times--that's enough!--is still up for grabs ideologically, much like the alt.weeklies.)

A lot of liberal/left bloggers use it, but they're wrong to do so.

Thanks,

John A

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