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Chris Lydon on old and new media

May 10, 2006 By Charley on the MTA

With typical understatement, in the latest MassINC magazine Christopher Lydon pronounces “An Emersonian transformation underway” in the media in these parts:

The Internet is that “better mousetrap” to which, as Emerson said, the world beats a path. I love it for serving a precisely Emersonian vision of expressive democracy. Think of it as a tool for rescuing the individual—“the infinitude of the private man”—from the mass (and from mass media), which was Emerson’s great project. “Masses!” he wailed; “the calamity is the masses.” Think of the rising Internet media as the means by which millions already follow the commandments of Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance.” That is, “trust thyself,” and speak for thyself, on thy Web site.

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(Thanks to Hub Blog for the steer.)

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  1. lynne says

    May 10, 2006 at 2:21 pm

    You read Hub before you read me! I’m so put-upon! grin

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    Like so many things…the internet and blogs are both over-villified and over-praised, I think. It’s a tool, to be used for good or evil. Hopefully mostly good. 🙂

    • charley-on-the-mta says

      May 10, 2006 at 6:39 pm

      Didn’t catch you on the ticker, there.

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      BTW, happy blogiversary!

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