Look! Up in the Air! In the Blogosphere! It's...the Caped Guy and an Assault on the Media!
For sheer entertainment, the upcoming "Superman Returns" movie (today's No. 15 top link) is generating its share of buzz, based on the fact that today's key people list contains the names of Lex Luthor (played by actor Kevin Spacey), Clark Kent (played by Brandon Routh) and Lois Lane (played by actress Kate Bosworth).
Truth, justice...and the media
But liberal-leaning political bloggers are paying attention to another battle being played out for real: what they perceive as an outright attack on the press by the Bush Administration, captured in today's top blog post by Glenn Greenwald, and fueled by White House Press Spokesman Tony Snow's video from Think Progress (No. 6 top blog post). In all of the hubbub, PressThink's Jay Rosen reminds bloggers why the definitions of "media" and "audience" are changing. And as some observers note, the whole debate boils down to an issue of truth vs. lies: whom do you trust to tell the truth, the media or the current administration? A BlogPulse graph plots the words "mainstream media/media" and "President Bush/Bush Administration" against words dealing with telling the truth or telling lies. And here's the result:
Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 29, 2006 12:13 PM
