What explains the rush to Limbaugh? Why is Kos being so vilified? What has been the political impact of radio and the internet?
These are the questions of our time: how a guy can alchemy snake oil from politics; why a left-blogger is so hated and which medium has the message.
E. J. Dionne touches on answers to these questions in his column in the Washington Post entitled The Rise of Kos, a reference to the blog the Daily Kos by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.
The Globe and Mail also has an interesting piece on the Kos Convention entitled Liberal blogs make their mark in U.S. race.
With the rise of the internet and the proliferation of blogging, the media filter is becoming more complex. But, perhaps, it can be simplified this way:
• radio is the medium made for sharp bites on simplified issues
• blogging, with it’s feed-back and hypercard links, inspires the fleshing out of nuance
• TV will always only be about the visuals, no matter what the issue
Radio is clearly made for blustering conservatives; blogging is tailor-made for thinking liberals; TV is the realm of empty beauty, impossibly white teeth and well-combed hair..
