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Political power has always revolved around shaping the flow of information. The only thing that has changed is the medium.
by mixmax 18y ago
Political power has always revolved around shaping the flow of information.
The only thing that has changed is the medium.
- jpcx01 18y agoEditing a wikipedia article (which people will subsequently edit back) hardly amounts to shaping the flow of information. For a more effective use of the strategy, see: http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishe...
- mynameishere 18y agoIt's the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The more telling phenom is that the nytimes, an ancient media outlet, put a reporter on the big "Palin's wiki article" scoop rather than, say, Obama's wiki article. I wonder if any of Obama's campaign volunteers edited his article... I wonder if the nytimes would try to turn that into a scandal. If they haven't turned his black theology/domestic terrorist associations/Chicago corruption scandals into scandals, I'm guessing...no. ... Here is what "shaping the flow of information" looks like: Sen. Barack Obama is warning TV stations and asking the Justice Department to intervene in an attempt to block the airing of an ad by a non-profit group that links him to an unrepentant domestic terrorist. http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73448 http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73448 ...okay? BHO is trying to muscle a private group from publishing information about him that the nytimes (etc, etc) is all too happy to suppress.
- pius 18y agoYou know, it's entirely possible to discuss this story here without getting into partisan politics. Can't we just stick to the relevant stuff?
- mynameishere 18y agoI didn't start it.
- ConradHex 18y agoHe's clearly trying to avoid getting swiftboated, which is a very real risk.