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Saturday, April 29, 2006
People Who Think You’re Stupid Lots of stuff about blogs in a survey of new media in The Economist, which notes the rising fortunes of the sort of thing you’re reading now and the declining fortunes of newspapers. Like Andrew Sullivan and other commentators, The Economist suggests that “It’s about democratisation” -- the rise of the individual voice and of conversation. Which is interestingly juxtaposed with a review of a new book in the same issue: Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialised by People Who Think You’re Stupid, by Joe Klein: Today political professionals - consultants, pollsters, and admen - test out every phrase [a politician might utter]. The result is a veritable Hobson’s choice: the droning inanities of a John Kerry versus the scripted platitudes of a George Bush. |