Reply #4: Ah yes, the old "mob" scare [View All]

-- He speaks of the "participatory Internet" as appearing to "encourage mobs and mob behavior." --

These people really are frightened of anything that is "participatory", anything that empowers individuals -- unless the participants are a chosen few, and the individuals are upper crust.

To Rago and his ilk, we are a "mob".

Well, good thing it makes them nervous. It should. Truth is a powerful force, and one that they are in general incapable of wielding since they fail to recognize it even when it smacks them upside the head.

I must say, though, it is rather disheartening to know that rightwing gasbag bloviating can begin at such a tender age. I comfort myself with the thought that as Mr. Rago attempts to scale the heights of Beltway punditry, the landscape will change right out from under him as the traditional media fades into well deserved irrelevance and the blogosphere and online journals achieve information primacy.