Butler does it again

In a previous post, I covered a soap opera. This
one below is more like high opera and as ironic.

Imagine a bunch of 'amateurs' bringing MSM (Main
Stream Media) to it's knees.

Now that's enough to give a chuckle to almost anyone,
even the victims.

I hear the fat lady's dulcet tones coming from her
dressing room back stage now...

If another edition of this book is forthcoming,
the authors would be well-advised to pay
attention to the whining coming from members of
the established media, who are doing their best
to convince us that Internet "blogging" is just
another fad that will soon go the way of the hula-
hoop and the hokey-pokey.
...
In the face of so much competing and conflicting
information, CNN hostess Judy Woodruff pondered,
would people not be better advised to rely on the
"mainstream media" for their news? She might just
as well have added: "you have been content to let
us do your thinking for you; why do you want to
undertake such tedious and unceasing work? Let us
continue to tell you what we think you should
know!" That CNN is one of the "mainstream"
institutions, the self-interested nature of her
question expresses the empty desperation of the
practitioners of an information system model that
is rapidly dying.
...
Websites and bloggers are learning the same
lessons that now beleaguer the established media:
in a rapidly decentralizing world, men and women
will develop their own demands for information
that serves their interests. With the Internet,
people need no longer be passive recipients of
what institutional authorities regard as the
"politically correct" content of their
minds!

Pay particular attention to what he says in the
last paragraph of the article in the link below.

I've said basically the same thing here before.

The whole article.