Comments on: Atomizing the Audience, Expanding the Debate http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/01/13/atomizing-the-audience-expanding-the-debate/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/01/13/atomizing-the-audience-expanding-the-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-2912 Seth Finkelstein Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:31:05 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1640#comment-2912 Sigh. Meta - If I criticize Jay Rosen's post, he has the option of personally attacking me from "on high", where I can't reply, as he's done in the past. This ought to show recursively just how much utter blithering nonsense he's writing about who can "define the sphere of legitimate debate". Sigh. Meta – If I criticize Jay Rosen’s post, he has the option of personally attacking me from “on high”, where I can’t reply, as he’s done in the past. This ought to show recursively just how much utter blithering nonsense he’s writing about who can “define the sphere of legitimate debate”.

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2009/01/13/atomizing-the-audience-expanding-the-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-2911 Jon Garfunkel Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:57:49 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1640#comment-2911 A worthy hypothesis, the next step is to test it. One can review the data from Memeorandum or BlogPulse over the last few years, and find out how many stories the Press led on, followed on, or was absent from. Of course, defining the Press ("MSM") is tougher these days. Newspaper blogs and cable news affiliates have the ability to dip their toe into the "deviant" issues. Does this a triumph of the atoms, or their cooptation? A worthy hypothesis, the next step is to test it. One can review the data from Memeorandum or BlogPulse over the last few years, and find out how many stories the Press led on, followed on, or was absent from.

Of course, defining the Press (“MSM”) is tougher these days. Newspaper blogs and cable news affiliates have the ability to dip their toe into the “deviant” issues. Does this a triumph of the atoms, or their cooptation?

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