{"id":220,"date":"2004-09-23T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=220"},"modified":"2013-05-16T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:25:25","slug":"the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/09\/23\/the-blogosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/chooseorlose\/headlines\/news.jhtml?id=1491292\">Blogs: Media Watchdogs or Pundits In Pajamas?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article hits it right on. Your blog may not be very popular, but the <i>collective<\/i> power of everyone&#8217;s blogs brings us closer to democracy &#8211; true democracy, mind you. Your voice can be heard, and no one can silence you. Individuals can now challenge the formerly unassailable mainstream media &#8211; and win, as the Dan Rathers story proves. <\/p>\n<p>I think about this, and I read this article, and I can&#8217;t help but feel that this is a really <i>good thing<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Power to the people, man.<\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your blog may not be very popular, but the collective power of everyone&#8217;s blogs brings us closer to democracy &#8211; true democracy, mind you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,385],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-blogging","tag-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-3y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/19\/democracy-and-liberty\/","url_meta":{"origin":220,"position":0},"title":"Democracy and Liberty","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This little analogy, found in a signature on Slashdot, sums it up quite nicely: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. 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