Comments on: The Blogosphere and Solzhenitsyn http://dltq.org/2008/08/05/the-blogosphere-and-solzhenitsyn/ a vlog by Raymond M. Kristiansen Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Michael Meiser http://dltq.org/2008/08/05/the-blogosphere-and-solzhenitsyn/#comment-9664 Michael Meiser Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:43:37 +0000 http://dltq.org/2008/08/05/the-blogosphere-and-solzhenitsyn/#comment-9664 there's no thumbs up asci symbol so consider this a thumbs up... on message... I see this with american politcal blogs like DailyKos and the huffington press. It's a whole new level of subjectivity with new risks, yet, it's much better then a few key players controlling the debate and "pretending" to be objective. On a side note, it's going to be absolutely fascinating to see how the government controlled "fourth estate" and the absolutely uncontrollable "new estate" of outsiders visiting beijing play off one another. Chinese media seems to have been very adept at keeping on message within china but it seems impossible and improbably that that some major rifts will not be visible. For example I watched a just bit of the opening cermony and NBC's obsession with the little boy who survived the earthquake (he came in holding Yao Ming's hand) bordered on absurd. It seemed almost like an obtuse attempt to coordinate a message or agenda between china and NBC. On whatever lever a collaboration on setting a narative. I found it very creepy. The announcer spent several minutes doing nothing but telling and re-telling a set of "on narrative talking points" about this kid. there’s no thumbs up asci symbol so consider this a thumbs up… on message… I see this with american politcal blogs like DailyKos and the huffington press. It’s a whole new level of subjectivity with new risks, yet, it’s much better then a few key players controlling the debate and “pretending” to be objective.

On a side note, it’s going to be absolutely fascinating to see how the government controlled “fourth estate” and the absolutely uncontrollable “new estate” of outsiders visiting beijing play off one another. Chinese media seems to have been very adept at keeping on message within china but it seems impossible and improbably that that some major rifts will not be visible.

For example I watched a just bit of the opening cermony and NBC’s obsession with the little boy who survived the earthquake (he came in holding Yao Ming’s hand) bordered on absurd. It seemed almost like an obtuse attempt to coordinate a message or agenda between china and NBC. On whatever lever a collaboration on setting a narative. I found it very creepy. The announcer spent several minutes doing nothing but telling and re-telling a set of “on narrative talking points” about this kid.

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