I was once again disappointed by Charlie Rose's failure to rationally address the net-roots phenomenon. The latest example was the recent interrogation of Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos. Charlie is usually an excellent interviewer, and can conduct an intelligent and enlightening conversation with pretty much anybody, but whenever confronted by these scions of the new media, he lapses into lame and mundane questions like "how far left are you," and "who is your favorite philosopher?" Even Charlie's body language is defensive with tense shoulders and arms held in close. What on earth is so threatening?
I was once again disappointed by Charlie Rose's failure to rationally address the net-roots phenomenon. The latest example was the recent interrogation of Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos. Charlie is usually an excellent interviewer, and can conduct an intelligent and enlightening conversation with pretty much anybody, but whenever confronted by these scions of the new media, he lapses into lame and mundane questions like "how far left are you," and "who is your favorite philosopher?" Even Charlie's body language is defensive with tense shoulders and arms held in close. What on earth is so threatening?
In Charlie's defense, many other representatives of the traditional media don't seem to get it either. I keep reading over and over again in the New York Times and the Washington Post about how hostile and angry and filled with incoherent rage the liberal blogs are, but you'd have to go pretty deep into Daily Kos to find anything like that. Today you'd have to wade through intelligent discussions of Keynesian economics, a discussion about financial assets leaving the country, a fine article from the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre about the illegal migration problem, a post about whether or not we really need items made in Chinese sweatshops, an article about lead in paint, a good-news post about how the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is actually slowing, a post on African-American infant mortality, a helpful article about how to prepare for a Katrina-like disaster, and a political post about why Karl Rove is leaving (to be truthful, there is a Photoshop picture of Karl being frog-marched out of the White House on that one) but there's nary a foul word to be seen, and the point of the article, that Rove may simply have outlived his usefulness to the administration, is definitely as valid a theory as any other. In other words, Daily Kos is as varied and interesting as the Charlie Rose show!
It beats me why you all seem to be so threatened by these people. Daily Kos and other similar websites are an outlet for stories and opinions that aren't well covered in the traditional media As far as I can see, the only threat the net-roots poses to you in the traditional media is when you fail to do your job; telling the story and conducting good interviews.