Daddy Bush on bloggers

[Faithless]

Goddamn Andrew Sullivan and (my girl) MM! Mucking up freedom of speech they are.

Former President Bush Blames ‘Bloggers’ for ‘Ugly’ Political Climate (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/14/hwbloggers/)

Last night on Fox News, former President George H.W. Bush said the current political climate has “gotten so adversarial that it’s ugly.” Asked to offer an explanation for why there is this “incivility,” Bush pinned the blame on bloggers. “It’s probably a little worse now given electronic media and the bloggers and all these kinds of things,” he said. ...

Also, Bush revealed that he enjoys using “the email” but lamented that his son, President George W. Bush, cannot for fear that the emails would get subpoenaed. Bush worried that presidents who used email would be forced to prove “that you were telling the truth and all this stuff.”

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[mizhi]

Goddamn Andrew Sullivan and (my girl) MM! Mucking up freedom of speech they are.

He's not entirely wrong though. Greater ease at communicating to large numbers of people have allowed for people who do not write at the level of quality required of traditional media outlets to gain audiences; sometimes these folks are very nasty in their commentary.

I'm not making a value judgment on this, but I do think that the average person, who now has access to powerful publishing tools, does not phrase his words in nearly as civil a tone as professional writers.

[Banana]

Yes.

Quality outlets like Fox News!

[Faithless]

Oh. I was thinking more along the lines of -- people who spend their days in line trying to buy xBox's or sitting their faces in front of them for hours being more anti-social / less civil.

[Arex]

The reason Bush Jr. doesn't use "the e-mail" is because the fool probably doesn't know how to type.

[power puff girl]

its a good thing there are bloggers who can battle the increasingly corporate media, whose interests are aligned more with its corporate board than its viewers. the traditional media won't touch any story that threatens its corporate profits, where advertisers will pull out after a controversial story.