Doc Searls Meta-Coverage

Reaching
Originally uploaded by halp_carlisle.

Yup. Another favourite of mine while i go through my 'OPML' file (ive never had a blogroll) : "Contrast this with armchair fact-checking, theorizing, posturing. I was offended by how quickly the whole discussion went meta. Bodies yet to be retrieved & buried, folks hanging from their own rafters holding onto life, literally, by their fingertips -- and pundits, bloggers and media types were already well on their way to converting the storm into a object lesson for their own rhetorical strategies. Hijacked our suffering for their own stories." It also rings true that The Tsunami faced by Indonesia 9-10 months ago was an order of magnitude worse than this, in physical damage and people killed, but that elicited very little media and blogging response. These things should be analysed.