Like you, I’m of two minds about these things, very grateful for expression of mutual respect, of course, but also somewhat at a loss when it comes to sharing the wealth.

Since Scruggsiana took off, I’ve spent most of my off-folo reading time on story-linked email instead of other blogs. I get around to so few of those anymore (lucky to snag peeks at TPM every so often and, once a week, at meta’s :pastry studio), I’ll have trouble coming up with five (or for Hopey, ten) new picks to nominate.

But I’ll mull the possibilities and try to come up with some goodies. Most of all, though, I’m gwoovin’ on the fine colleagueship of the author of Slobber & Spittle!

Other than that though, I must say I agree. It’s gotten to the point where fewer than a dozen people control most of the mass-media news content. That’s not good for democracy.

Meanwhile, Lotus, I’ve left you another decoration for your new digs.

Enjoy.

One does not have to be tied to a “respected daily newspaper” to have an impact in the struggle for ideas and facts and truth. The press is not the respected daily newspaper or the network news o Sirius or XM.

The time will come when the press as we know it will be no more. It will be replaced with much more interesting, rigorous, and truthful (and truth seeking) publication of news, opinion, speculation, facts. Indeed, maybe the time has already come. Maybe, if we are lucky, the internet news marketplace will lead us to the truth, or at least get us closer to it.

Or better entertain us in the process.

Yet, even though I suspect the truth is there, we are still not ready for it. Just imagine . . .

But be forewarned, the status quo may well rise up and shut down the forum, the internet.

At this point the First Amendment will die. Although there will be victims there will be no one against whom responsibity for the crime responsiblity will attach.