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To: Lane3 who wrote (154459)	1/11/2006 10:36:41 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793955

"Singleton, CNN and Triangulating Blogs Dick Morris re-defined triangulation relative to Bill Clinton: A political strategy associated with President Bill Clinton that involves pitting two polar extremes against one another while staking a claim in the middle. The strategy was devised and expounded by presidential advisor Dick Morris. Recently I've been thinking about the concept of triangulation in the context of blogging and how it can present what I believe to be a genuine danger to an emergent media already well-delineated along seemingly ideological lines - Left versus Right. Both liberal and conservative bloggers decry an apparent lack of objectivity in the MSM. But except for some few and far between self-professed voices of moderation, many bloggers seem to follow up that charge with an intense skew of their own along ideological lines. The ideal concept behind a news media is not for it to be weighted heavily one way or another but to be truly balanced. One could argue that both sides of today's blogosphere balance one another out. But there's very little to suggest that's true except in the context of sniping across the lines as readers of one side or the other appear to mostly stay on their own sides. The danger as regards some issues, like Pork Busting for example, is that politicians as a whole can triangulate, if you will, bloggers, Left versus Right, to in essence seek cover and defense from one side less likely to target a particular politician because of his or her party affiliation. And on the other hand, with scandals from the NSA leaks to Jack Abrahamoff, which do appear to have definite roots in the disparate political parties, bloggers widely split along almost party lines do more to negate one another than to mount some united, altruistic assault on potential governmental malfeasance in general. Don Singleton responds to a HuffingtonPost piece in which Jesse Kornbluth suggests that George Soros buy CNN. And in doing so he suggests Fox News is fair and balanced. Frankly, outside of Hume and a few others, perhaps - I don't know what Fox News wants to be besides entertaining. But be that as it may, the issue here is blogging. And if blogs are going to counteract real or perceived subjectivity in news reporting, they are going to have to do it with objectivity and not simply trying to scream louder for their particular cause. Those that agree with you will love it - those who disagree will love to attack you - but the vast majority of Americans who really are independent and not stridently partisan one way or another are most likely simply going to tune you out, or click on by. Is fair and balanced something that can actually be achieved in today's highly charged political atmosphere, particularly across the blogosphere? Or is it already doomed to be little more than a marketing angle for an admittedly successful though still marginal cable television media operation? Frankly, I'm not sure." riehlworldview.com