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The speech machine

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The speech machine

: Jay Rosen writes a paper to provoke thought and conversation at an upcoming confab — both of which it will do in excess, I’m sure — and here’s my favorite thought nugget:

With blogging, an awkward term, we designate a fairly beautiful thing: the extension to many more people of a First Amendment franchise, the right to publish your thoughts to the world.

Wherever blogging spreads the dramas of free expression follow. And this will be true in journalism. There are struggles with freedom of speech. A blog, you see, is a little First Amendment machine. And some of the roots of blogging are in the right to speak up, the will to be heard. In some cases, heard over the din of journalism.

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    Sissy Willis

    We’ve all been reading and/or writing about what Charles Krauthammer described yesterday as “the mainstream media’s obliviousness to its own liberal bias” for some time. I happened to catch the once titanic — good metaphor, with a capital “T,” for the MSM, come to think of it: Rather & Company rearranging deck chairs and all that — Ted Koppel on C-Span the other night pontificating about how he and his sort are duty bound to report the negative since the political powers that be will make sure the positive gets out. Not. But the blogosphere is starting to make sure the whole story — both the good and the bad — gets out.
    The bloggers are the iceberg