Chris Lydon on old and new media

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.

We get a nice mention. Check it out.

(Thanks to Hub Blog for the steer.)

Please share widely!

0

0