Old Weird Ward
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Saturday, March 19, 2005
- - - - - From Pajamahadeen to Stasi - - - - -
According to Tina Brown, former editor of The New Yorker, "Bloggers are the new Stasi. All the timidity this engenders, all this watching your mouth has started to feel positively un-American." (See her article HERE.)
Hmmm....
Can I, as a "blogger", find someone who's flouting the Party Line, haul them away in the dead of night, torture them for the fun of it all, then stand 'em against a wall and shoot them? Is there really one "blogger" for every fifty citizens, spying and reporting upon our family, friends, and neighbors?
For the sake of Ms. Brown's sadly neglected education, here's a little article on the Stasi's origins and methods. I trust that the big words in there won't give her too much trouble.
Now that I've properly flayed her, I can also state that there's much in Ms. Brown's article to agree with. Specifically, the microscope under which all public figures seem to be these days. Quite literally, if you are at all prominent, whether as a business person, in show business, or as a politician, you do not have what I would call a "private life". The slightest misstep will find you being filleted, slowly, in public.
Just for instance, did I really want to hear all about Bill Clinton's privates?
Do I want to know all there is to know about Harry Stonecipher's fall from grace?
Have I a sufficiency of "news" about Michael Jackson?
No, No, and Yes.
Enough already!
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