Saturday, September 04, 2004

The Word, I Think, is Veracity

The other day, I noted Bitheads eye, and thoughts, on Instaman’s foray into the mainstream media, via the Wall Street Journal. Instaman was considering the effect of blogs, on the mainstream media, and Bithead was also was considering the subject, with a nod towards recognizing that the mainstream media’s “authority” was waning, and various blogs’ authority were waxing.

In my post, I threw out for consideration, the thought that it wasn’t necessarily “authority” that blogs were gaining, but respect.  Bithead kindly dropped an expansion of his thoughts on this subject in the comments to my post, and, in a further expansion on this subject, in a post titled “Why has the press lost it’s (sic) authority?" he notes an earlier post of Billy Beck’s titled “What’s Happening To Authority," which references Gutenberg’s contribution to the issue of authority, which was an undermining of a powerful group and an uplifting of individuals.  Gutenberg’s contribution, without a doubt, did empower the individual, as do the internet, and blogs.

As I applied myself to various yard chores this morning, I considered these two gentlemen’s thoughts.  One word kept casting itself into my thoughts as they mingled among Billy’s and Bithead’s thoughts.  Veracity. As recently as this morning, Billy noted the lack of veracity in the mainstream media, and he also noted the alacrity with which the mainstream media’s product is consumed, a thought which bears heavily on this issue of whether or not the mainstream media actually does have any authority, or, is more like a group of gossipy teenage girls gathered around a locker in the hallway of a local highschool.  Or, as I mentioned in this post, simply spewers of white noise.

The subject is an interesting one, and though Bithead ends up at a somewhat different destination than Billy, as noted in his post titled "Why has the press lost it’s (sic) authority," where he posits that authority is acheived through groupings of individuals, rather than through the individual, both Billy and Bithead display more veracity, individually, than any media group currently in existence.

Posted by John Venlet on 09/04 at 09:17 AM
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