Move Over Tom Brokaw:
This morning’s Washington Post has two articles on the rise of Internet-based indepedent media and the now obligatory are-blogs-real-journalism? article.
This past weekend’s anti-war-globalization-capitalism-etc protests here in DC were the triggering events for these articles. The weekend protests were tame, but 40 protesters managed to get arrested this morning.
Even though I know a couple of the organizers of Mobilization for Global Justice, and I know they’re real about what they’re protesting, I can’t help but feel that these protests are ultimately irrelevant and, in-fact, counter-productive. Dredlocked granola-punk anarchists with street-theater puppetry don’t sway legislators and multinational corporations. Does this generate any positive media attention for their actual ideas (if you can even dredge the ideas out of the stone soup of issues they’re “protesting”)?