Myth of Unity
The Deacon at PowerLine writes about Bill Keller’s comments to Jeff Jarvis concerning Keller’s worries about bloggers. Along the way he promotes the common myth of polarization familiar to MSM denizens:
His chief complaint about us is that we're "erod[ing] the middle ground and accelerat[ing] a general polarization of the nation into people, right and left, who are ardently convinced and not very interested in exposing themselves to facts or ideas that contradict their prejudices."
What Keller and the rest of the MSM fail to grasp is that the country has always been polarized. They have lived such insular lives with a stranglehold on the information flow to reinforce their limited, protected worldviews. Now that millions of cyber-Gutenbergs have the ability to demonstrate their distaste for their slant this somehow constitutes a “polarization” when, in fact, all it represents is a forced awakening among the gatekeepers and their drones.
The differences were always there but now the rest of the people can publish, too.