Blogs In Russia Georgia Echo Chamber
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The promise of blogs and blogging and all the associated other social networks is that they would outsmart, outdistance and outshine the main stream media (MSM). While I believe some of that happened initially, lately much of the blogging simply seems to be bloggers echoing one another and echoing the top MSM stories. The most recent example in high tech was the coverage of the attempt by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo. This story went from interesting to boring at digital speed. I suppose the problem lies in bloggers trying to get page views, but I'll leave that for later. But now there is a genuine world crisis in an area not particularly open to the press and involving politics, social forces and geographies which frankly I don't think we in the West and the U.S. in particular know much about: the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia. This would seem fertile ground for bloggers able to get at a realistic view if not the ever elusive "Truth." In addition to LaVine, I'd include some analysis by Yulia Latynina. Registan is a good place for round-up on Central Asia news. I'm not turning this blog into a political blog, but it is in covering the big events of our time that the idea of bloggers outsmarting the mainstream press shows its strengths and weakness. |
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OPINION OF GEORGIA SOUTH OSSETIA INVASION
For everything what I,ve read and observed, I don?t have any least (minimum) doubt that somebody in the West has prepared and authorized the Georgia attack on South Ossetia. Nobody would be sufficient crazy to attack Russian peacekeepers without guarantees that the attacker would not be swept of the map by the Russian counterattack. And we know who can, at the present time (nowadays), give this guarantee. It remains to try to discover the motive that took someone to support this irresponsible adventure. Nowadays is not like in the past? Thinking a little bit more and with a little bit of calm, what has changed between today and 2004 or 2006? The 99% probability answer: American complicated elections and without possibility of use of the terrorism, Iraq or Afghanistan to justify the vote in the republican falcons. How is the trick that can sufficiently make the American electorate scared to support the continuity of an administration marked by the fear of declared and hidden enemies? Single. Just to finance the campaign of a madman to the presidency of Georgia in 2004, to re-equip and train and prepare the Georgian army, to send American troops for exercises of war inside Georgia and to set free the collar that was fastening the crazy dogs of war. The dogs of war planned and made, in great advance, a crisis under measure to scare and frighten the people of the United States and create an atmosphere of fear and the necessity of a hard leadership accustomed to war, all it did in order to face the so called "threat posed by Russia".
Posted by Guenady | August 29, 2008 4:16 PM