Friday
(0)A French blog (well, sort of a blog) which fisked the EU Constitution is one of a new wave of European political blogs which are going to make it a lot harder for the technocrats in Brussels and the various European capitals to just double talk their way past the issues with the connivance or at least indifference of much of the mainstream media.
Hopefully this sort of thing will become more and more common as tools for penetrating the dense fog of half-truths and outright lies thrown up around so many political issues by people who want as little informed choice as possible.
This guy believes the way out of the economic rut is to have the government splurge on huge projects. In other words, we got in bad shape due to statism. Let's do more of it.
Next.
Posted by Sylvain Galineau at June 3, 2005 02:11 PM
My French is good enough to know his views are complete nonsence but that was not the point I was making at all.
Posted by Perry de Havilland at June 3, 2005 02:46 PM
I don't know if blogging offers us a brave new world. A couple will stand out but the rest...?
Anybody can make their own blog and they can say anything that takes their fancy without checking a single fact - you only have to look at mine to know it's true.
We're overloaded with blogs. When the novelty wears off - in a couple of years - what will be left standing will be the serious, the determined and the quality. The quality will be in the minority...
AB
Posted by Albion Blogger at June 3, 2005 07:39 PM
Every generation has its own enemy, and that of Generation Blogger is the evil MSM (mainstream media).
Keep up the good work regardless of the doubters, because remember that it was the blogosphere that brought down Dan Rather.
Posted by Phil at June 3, 2005 08:21 PM
Albion Blogger misses the point. Sure you can put complete bollocks up on your blog but it will either be ignored or, if you have managed to attract some attention, it will be fisked(Link) out of existance.
The fact is that blogs give people who know what they are talking about (such as typography experts in the case of the Dan Rather affair) a way to say what might otherwise not get said when it matters. That is what makes blogging important.
Posted by Perry de Havilland at June 3, 2005 08:59 PM
So what matters is that something got fisked, no matter how bogus the logic and argument behind it ? If this is in fact representative of what Brussels is facing, they can keep ignoring their local blogosphere a while longer.
Posted by Sylvain Galineau at June 4, 2005 02:19 PM
I was just pointing out that the European blogosphere is starting to feature in the political debate... even if the 'bad guys' are doing it, that does not change the fact it is happening in Europe now too. I do not want to ignore what is going on just because some of the people doing it are partisans for things I disapprove of.
Posted by Perry de Havilland at June 4, 2005 02:25 PM
Perry
You may have noticed the whole European Parliament Motion of censurew thing that finally played itself out this week. Barroso was summoned by over 70 MEPs to explain his holidays, 100's of articles in the Continental press etc. All started with a story on EUReferendum Blog. Don't think anything as significant has happened in the US. Oddly it has bnot really been picked up at all by the media or for that matter by the bloggosphere, shame, really as there are very effective bloggers inb the EU as there are elsewhere.
Posted by Elaib at June 9, 2005 02:10 PM
