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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 08:00 PM
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My imagination or Andrew Keen is a complete asshat?
I just saw the Colbert Report and the interview with the idiot who wrote "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture."

Who in their right mind could claim internet bloggers are corporate shills and journalism should be left to the professionals? Am I in an alternate universe or is it just being around my misogynistic, racist, right-wing asshole brother-in-law this week that has left me a tad bit biased?
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 08:06 PM
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1. I'm sure Colbert made him look like a serious dink...
I mean, what culture? Precisely? There are a lot of American cultures and sub-cultures.
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 08:09 PM
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2. Yep, Colbert did a good job.
Typical reactionary response to the evolution of human culture. The internet is here to stay. It will affect our language, artistic sensibilities, information aquisition, etc.

Reminds me of people who bitch about slang. Forgetting that language is dynamic and we no longer speak or write like the author of Beowulf. Sheesh
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 09:30 PM
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3. He was a complete asshat. Maybe his book will be stolen and burned. nt
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