Thanks to some recent successes in uncovering some political and media lies the armchair pundits called ‘bloggers’ consider themselves a new political force.
What they don’t understand that they are the bottom of the information food chain. They only reexamine scraps dropped down to them, checking inconsistencies of the overall news feed produced by the alliance of international big media and mostly American big politics.
Political deals and money powered lobbyism happens between real people, real bank accounts and real backrooms. Places you can’t google. Place you can’t hyperlink to.
The culture of fear and the terror of the media can’t be stopped with a mouse click, but by an active democratic culture on the ballot and on the streets. Mouse pointers won’t stop tanks nor political subversion.