{"id":245,"date":"2002-02-27T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2002-02-27T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/the-smoke-shield\/"},"modified":"2002-02-27T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2002-02-27T10:08:09","slug":"the-smoke-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/27\/the-smoke-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"The smoke shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t? <a href=\"http:\/\/a.wholelottanothing.org\/archived.blah\/2\/01\/2002\/#813\">old bits of nothing<\/a> says, vis a vis the snobbery of the J-Team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf the journalism-with-a-capital-J crowd is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/02\/25\/technology\/ebusiness\/25ECOM.html\">calling it a fad,<\/a> perhaps they are scared at the prospects of admitting there is something useful in weblogs, and it&#8217;s a smoke shield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That they&#8217;re scared is a given; the challenge is to recognize that they&#8217;re using two tactics to undermine the threat: one is the snobbish put-downs in the print media, and the other is active co-option, or pushing the Blogosphere toward banality. Behind the high-profile banality you&#8217;ll often find Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorp.com\/\">News Corporation<\/a>, handing out cash and exposure; Fox News and the London Times (publisher of Sullivan&#8217;s linkless manifesto) are both News Corp properties. But that&#8217;s just a coincidence, of course, because News Corp has so many properties they&#8217;re involved in all things mediarific by necessity, from tabloids to dailies to networks to satellites and even to set-top boxes; they&#8217;re pretty big in James Bond movies too.<P>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? old bits of nothing says, vis a vis the snobbery of the J-Team: If the journalism-with-a-capital-J crowd is calling it a fad, perhaps they are scared at the prospects of admitting there is something useful in weblogs, and it&#8217;s a smoke shield. That they&#8217;re scared is a given; the challenge is to recognize that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/27\/the-smoke-shield\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The smoke shield&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-3X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}