Speaking of Jarvis, this little post just might spark a little controversy:
As for the anti-big-media bashing we’ve seen from webloggers — inspired lately by the FCC and by the New York Times screwups — I’ll argue that they are essentially jealous. Webloggers are nanomedia moguls with big-media aspirations. Most of them are conservative or libertarian and thus should abhor regulation, even of media. But in this case and this case only, they endorse regulation. Why? Because they hate big media. And they hate big media because it has the resources and the distribution and the audience they don’t have. Hell, big media pays; blogging doesn’t.
Isn’t it odd that only a tiny number of bloggers favor media deregulation?
I’ve had that whiny-ass rant on my screen for about 30 minutes, and at the end of that 30 minutes, all I can really say is “boo frikkin’ hoo, Jeffro.” Media regulation, talking about media regulation, and whining about media regulation interests me about as much as regulation in the fence-post industry. Hell, media talk period is boring, bashing OR propping up. If all of these wasted keystrokes and photons led to lower taxes and smaller govt., I might be interested. That ain’t gonna happen. De-regulate away, close your agency or sub-committee down, and let’s get on with business, OK?