Ben's bloggers
Ben Davies's "Top ten bloggers" ("Politics and the Internet Age" supplement, 20 October) was too kind to the right-wing blogosphere. At present there is a free market in blogging, so it is not surprising that moneyed, right-wing viewpoints are rising to the top. In the longer term, if the internet is to fulfil its possibilities of delivering a free and democratic media, it will be necessary for the state to intervene to support less moneyed viewpoints.
We have a so-called free press where you are free to open and run a mass-circulation newspaper - provided you are a multimillionaire. Hence the right-wing domination of the press. It's the same with the internet. The start-up cost of a blog may be low, but to run a highly influential, mass-circulation blog you need a lot of money.
Jeff Cumberland
London E11
What a load of flatulent arse!
At present there is a free market in blogging, so it is not surprising that moneyed, right-wing viewpoints are rising to the top.
Utter shite. I don't know any moneyed bloggers at all, people with money are all out doing things that make them more money. Blogging doesn't make you any money. The free market in blogging is accurate, though, and the difference between left- and right-wing bloggers is that people on the right are writing what people want to read.
In the longer term, if the internet is to fulfil its possibilities of delivering a free and democratic media, it will be necessary for the state to intervene to support less moneyed viewpoints.
WHAT???????!?!????!
What the cunting fuck are you wittering on about, you cock-biting fucktard? You want the state to fund left-wing bloggers? Do you think that's going to make anyone want to read their turgid cuntsnaffling?
You have the most tenuous grasp on the purpose of blogging I think I've ever seen.
I (very) occasionally read Dave's Part, because he is erudite and occasionally funny. I can't think of a single other left-wing blogger that I could be arsed to read. It's not because they lack funding. It's because they're tiresome, whiny shits who haven't learned the lessons of history and because they have nothing useful or even funny to say.
I would say that I can't think of a single more stupid use of taxpayers' money than to fund some cretinous left-wing blogger, but sadly that's not the case.
Go on Jeff, admit it. You've tried a blog and no-one read it, didn't you? It's not a lack of funding, Jeff. It's a lack of wit, intelligence and above all, a lack of anything useful to say.
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Remember the Socialist way - if we can't be as good as them, they have to be made as bad as us.
So the controls will most likely involve censoring words of more than one syllable and rejecting posts in which nothing is incorrectly spelled.
No wit allowed.
I have heard the same feed of arse here.
Surely 'the poor' can access the internet via the Playstation's and xbox's that they all own, along with their frickin' Sky TV
Last time I checked, a blogger account is free. The rest is word of mouth.
It makes you wonder what sort of screening they do before publishing a letter.
"The start-up cost of a blog may be low, but to run a highly influential, mass-circulation blog you need a lot of money." Where in the name of all that is Brown did he get that idea? And how could anyone publish something so patently false?
My mind might be addled, but that doesn't stop it boggling.
The only cost is an old computer (about $100 or often free) and an internet account (less than the cost of one fag a day for a cheap dial-up)
I suppose the govamint answer is to give every cunt on the dole a new apple and a free broadband account...
Oh- and make all the VRWC bloggers register!
'In the longer term, if the internet is to fulfil its possibilities of delivering a free and democratic media, it will be necessary for the state to intervene to support less moneyed viewpoints.'
It's already here, of course, with these fine state-supported unmoneyed bloggers...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/gavinhewitt/ awesome analysis of the psephological workings of Ilamist minds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/10/storm_over_corfu.html
So that's alright then.
About those credit cards, has there 'been no similar specific allegation that Lord Mandelson/the Obama campaign has broken any laws'?
Such as these...
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTI5OTdiZWI1YmZkNDViMmQzYWE2ZDIyMTBlMDhjYjQ=
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6078399.html
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGNjYmQ4MzViZjk2NmJiZDc1MjBiMGZiNjE1MWFjNTI=
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-campaigns-massive-credit-card.html
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/those-gazan-con.html
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donations/2008/10/21/142761.html
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/more-reckless-o.html
Seems like the unmoneyed and moneyed viewpoints alike can find out such stuff, but I can't see the state-suppoted BBC blogs noticing the scandal.
Go get 'em, Obnoxio
For Balance: Grudging approval or faint praide here for a 'conservative':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/matthewprice/2008/10/its_obvious_things_are_going.html
I was going to post a witty and erudite comment--then decided I wasn't in receipt of enough funding...
Truth is, I don't know how to be witty and erudite and even if did, just couldn't be arsed responding to the little socialist shit-head. For the love of christ, just shoot him, someone!
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