Apparently, another audience member appreciates Q and A too. Her question, and I paraphrase:
Um, I ask this question, because when I look up, I see four of five of you that are white, men, and wealthy political bloggers, my question, I ask, how do you represent me on the blogosphere? How are you representing people who don't have a voice in traditional media?
Interesting, I think. This could be fun. Of course, her totally stereotype was off, as one of the bloggers was part-Native American, and several of them made comments that they weren't wealthy. I'm sure Jerome has cash, but I don't doubt that several of the panelists are paid equivalent amount that civil servants and most political operators make (read: not much).
And their response, which I think Jerome said: "If we aren't representing you, make a blog yourself. It costs nothing."
Spot on. This is the beauty of blogging. It isn't traditional media where you would need hundreds of thousands of dollars to start a printing press, nor the immense amount of paperwork and FCC regs if you wanted to started a radio station. You just need a computer and internet connection.
Yes angry lady, everyone doesn't have the money to have a personal computer or online access, but everyone can go to a library. There is no blog conspiracy to keep minorities and/or women from the blogosphere. It all comes down to content.
If your content rocks -- people are going to read it. I don't even know the sex or ethnicity of 90 percent of the bloggers I read.
Moral of the story: Produce great content. Get readers.
/end rant
And their response, which I think Jerome said: "If we aren't representing you, make a blog yourself. It costs nothing."
Spot on. This is the beauty of blogging. It isn't traditional media where you would need hundreds of thousands of dollars to start a printing press, nor the immense amount of paperwork and FCC regs if you wanted to started a radio station. You just need a computer and internet connection.
Yes angry lady, everyone doesn't have the money to have a personal computer or online access, but everyone can go to a library. There is no blog conspiracy to keep minorities and/or women from the blogosphere. It all comes down to content.
If your content rocks -- people are going to read it. I don't even know the sex or ethnicity of 90 percent of the bloggers I read.
Moral of the story: Produce great content. Get readers.
/end rant
4 comments:
But I don't want readers. My point is not that *I* need a blog, but that minorities and poor people are NOT being represented by the political blogosphere, just as they aren't being represented in the mainstream political media. The blogosphere is controlled by richwhitemen just as the mainstream media and ALL of politics in America is controlled by richwhitemen. Rich, btw, is all relative.
Therefore, mainstream political bloggers are NOT NOT NOT that different from the mainstream media. And I think it is an INSULT to them and to the public for them to constantly talk about how different they are from the mainstream media when they ARE NOT DIFFERENT.
I know I wasn't very articulate when I "attacked" the panel, but I was especially angry when they totally blew off my comments.
Anyway, my blog is here (I'm also linked on instapundit and I can pretty much guarantee that my blog has gotten tens of thousands of more hits than has yours, but I DO NOT care; how many hits my blog gets is totally irrelevant): http://camstar.vox.com/library/post/blog-to-the-chief.html
In case you were interested in following up on this woman, whose name is Cammy Chandler or something like that, you might want to check out her flame war at http://camstar.vox.com/ Check our her comments from 2/19/07 and 2/20/07.....
She claims there are no blogs written by "her people" (but admits she is a white daughter of privilege) and attacks the panel for not representing them...But the people on the panel included a liberal female, and several minority males (if you include Jews and Native Americans) and no one who was rich. Plus, one of the men most active in putting the panel together is Black and not very well-heeled (he wanted something like this so he worked to see it happen).
Cammy just assumed she knew all about them, and the blogs, without doing her homework. Sounds like she could use some Zoloft or something like it....Or maybe just a lesson in civil conduct. I.e. Get the facts before you attack people based upon your perceptions of wrong doing.
PATSY: I never said anything about "my people" so I have NO IDEA what you are talking about.
I know all about civil conduct, I would say that the people who started the flame war against me and the people who have written Truly THREATENING things about me on their blogs, know nothing about it.
I DO have the facts, Patsy. Joan and Jerome both have admitted that they ARE rich. And you think the prominent lawyer on that panel wasn't rich? Think again. I can also guarantee that every single blog panel participant is in the top one percent of income earners in the entire world. I'd call that wealthy.
Finally, I did not assume anything. If you actually read my blog post about the forum, you'll realize that there's nothing much on there that can be disputed.
In fact, Jerome on the panel even stated during the panel discussion that what I said was true, that they had done a study of his blog readers and found the demographics to be mostly male, wealthy, and white.
And who is this t guy? You are scary, t. just SCARY.
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