by Jessica Reed
This blog entry was recently tracked down in the abyssal blogosphere made our day at openDemocracy - we love well-constructed and intelligent criticism, but also take into account all kind of comments and accusations... The comment in question is from the Never trust a hippy blog:
" (...) a new social force is being constructed gradually. And the attempts by the MSM to co-opt this force – I would argue – are unlikely to succeed. Most bloggers, I would suggest, find it irksome to be expected to go over to someone else’s space and make it work for them. When the excellent openDemocracy project was starting up, it aimed not only to provide an editorial venture that remained uncompromised by ‘the prejudices of the proprietor that the advertisers don’t object to*’, it also aimed to build a global discussion community.
At the time, I felt that one of its weaknesses was that people wanted to have a space that was identifiably their own – and the blogosphere has done that subsequently (much to OpenDemocracy’s benefit, I’m glad to say). If OpenDemocracy hasn’t been able to co-opt the global commentariat, how on earth can big media expect to do so?"
