Mark Bahnisch comments on his blog:
“Online Opinion, which has been running a series of articles on blogging and new media, has published my piece - Political Blogs versus Big Media? It’s the wrong question to ask. I’d be very interested in feedback. I’ve also posted the article here at LP so that it becomes part of the archive of this site.
My argument, in short, is that to counterpose blogging to big media and ask, as journos often do, “why don’t Ozbloggers break stories and influence the political process?” is to misunderstand the role blogs can actually play - I argue that there are aspects of the form itself (primarily interactivity) that make blogging significant:
As blogger Ken Parish put it, we become monitorial citizens, and, I’d add, better citizens. I hope, just as I’ve argued that blogging reflects broader social patterns, that this political interactivity is a sign of the times. It’s certainly a sign of hope, and as the song goes, maybe “from little things, big things grow”.
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