Let the Blog Begin
February 26th 2008 14:36
The lament of "serious" journalists is the utter unaccountability of the Blogger. The Blogger is not beholden to any system of truth verification, is not subject to any system forcing responsibility, does not come from within a system in which we can "trust". And of course that's the point, the breakdown of trust in the traditional media sources led directly and indirectly to the creation of this new source and format of information, the Blog.
How therefore can we trust the Blog's unverified, subjective information? Quite simply, we don't. We approach everything cynically, critique everything and from this develop our own opinion of what is "true". And we do this by writing a blog critiquing the blog.
You see the beauty and the ugliness of the Blog is that it is so far removed of reality, one of the great examples of Baudrillard's hyperreality taking over the world we inhabit.
You can write a Blog about a review about a film made about a book based on a true story. You can even write a Blog about hypothetical journalists lamenting the Blog before rapidly skipping on to discuss the nature of the Blog as profoundly detached from reality. All is acceptable in the hyperreal world of the Blog.
And so begins in spectacularly self-referential fashion, my Blog.
How therefore can we trust the Blog's unverified, subjective information? Quite simply, we don't. We approach everything cynically, critique everything and from this develop our own opinion of what is "true". And we do this by writing a blog critiquing the blog.
You see the beauty and the ugliness of the Blog is that it is so far removed of reality, one of the great examples of Baudrillard's hyperreality taking over the world we inhabit.
You can write a Blog about a review about a film made about a book based on a true story. You can even write a Blog about hypothetical journalists lamenting the Blog before rapidly skipping on to discuss the nature of the Blog as profoundly detached from reality. All is acceptable in the hyperreal world of the Blog.
And so begins in spectacularly self-referential fashion, my Blog.
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Comment by Harry
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I think a key for a blogger is to build trust in their "brand".
Comment by katyzzz
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Let's leave blogs as simply blogs, not turn them into something else.