From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 12:10:53 MDT
[rhinoceros]
I found this very interesting and I posted it on the BBS.
Noam Chomsky: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream (1997)
http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=26517
[Joe Dees]
Actually, this is no longer true (if it ever was), since the Internet has reached a critical mass of emergent complexity that will independently drive a worthwhile story to the point that it cannot be ignored by the major media outlets. See:
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and
Software by Steven Johnson
particularly chapter 4 Listening to Feedback
[rhinoceros]
What is a worthwhile story? Some stories have been rejected here because they were not coming from the right sources. Other stories are being rewritten in different ways by different sources.
And what about the people who are not connected? Are they a random sample or are they specific kinds of people who have been excluded from the emergence?
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