... erklärt uns heute George Packer: The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged. Their second-by-second proliferation means that far more is written than needs to be said about any one thing. To change metaphors for a moment (and to deepen the shame), I gorge myself on these hundreds of pieces of commentary like so much candy into a bloated - yet nervous, sugar-jangled - stupor. Those hours of out-of-body drift leave me with few, if any, tangible thoughts. Blog prose is written in headline form to imitate informal speech, with short emphatic sentences and frequent use of boldface and italics. The entries, sometimes updated hourly, are little spasms of assertion, usually too brief for an argument ever to stand a chance of developing layers of meaning or ramifying into qualification and complication. There's a constant sense that someone (almost always the blogger) is winning and someone else is losing. Everything that happens in the blogosphere - every point, rebuttal, gloat, jeer, or "fisk" (dismemberment of a piece of text with close analytical reading) - is a knockout punch. [via convers.antville.org]

Interessant erscheint mir, das hierbei mal wieder auf das Gesamt-Phänomen 'Blogosphäre' verwiesen wird und nicht auf die wenigen guten Blogs, die man tatsächlich aufmerksam liest und schätzt. Denn wenn man es so will, also einfach nach der empirischen Verteilung der Masse zu urteilen, dann ist doch jedes Medium grottenschlecht, weil es in seiner Gesamtheit zu mindestens 95% Müll enthält. Ebenso einfach, wie trivial. Ich glaube ich hab das hier schon mehrmals geschrieben, aber was solls.
Manche Journalisten scheinen das nicht verstehen zu können oder wollen.