--30-- (Friday, Aug. 20)

I found a remarkable piece of commentary about the media battle going on between the Swift Boat vets and John Kerry's camp on a blog called "Dean's World." Dunno who Dean is. Or much about his world. But he expresses my sentiments on how the blogosphere is marginalizing the mainstream media:

What's been most stunning about the Vets' story, however, is not their allegations, but the fact that this group has been able to completely bypass the mainstream media. Even more stunning, when Kerry-friendly newspapers have launched attacks on them, they have been able to attack back, answering charges, pointing out where they feel they've been misquoted or misrepresented, and answering their accusers point-by-point--and they have not had to rely on sympathetic reporters and editors to get their message out. Just a web page, and a host of citizen journalists (i.e. "webloggers") to point their message out.

You can real the whole Dean World's commentary here.

DFO

P.S. Thanks for another great week and all the links you send me.