{"id":13688,"date":"2008-10-22T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/10\/22\/the-internet-has-changed-everything.html"},"modified":"2008-10-22T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T21:55:08","slug":"the_internet_has_changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/the_internet_has_changed.html","title":{"rendered":"The Internet has changed everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, it lets people blather on to a larger audience than they had in the past, but it also means reality can intrude on rhetoric, and fact-checking and audio-video proof can be put out there for everyone to see. For example:<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time, there would be rumors bandied about that someone had said something as asinine as “liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.<\/strong>” But they would have been just rumors, and Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) would have, as he did in this case, just issued a categorical denial. And if the mainstream media didn’t roll the film or the audio on the nightly news, it would simply be a he-said-she-said situation.<\/p>\n

Now, though, everyone’s recording this stuff, and putting it up on YouTube, and everyone <\/em>can hear it. And know that Rep. Hayes is (there’s no other way to put this) a liar <\/strong>in making his vehement denial.<\/p>\n

Sure, you can mix and edit and screw around with these sorts of things — and we’ll see more of that in future election cycles, too. But the dispersion of the Internet as a way of letting everyone get info out to everyone else removes so many choke points for information, politicians are going to have to really watch what they say, and think not whether it will juice up the audience their addressing, but how it will play to every other audience.<\/p>\n

Novel idea, that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, it lets people blather on to a larger audience than they had in the past, but it also means reality can intrude on rhetoric, and fact-checking and audio-video proof…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-fourth-estate","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130199,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/finding-an-analog-for-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":13688,"position":0},"title":"Finding an analog for Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Mar-16 9:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Marx said that history repeats itself \"the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.\" A lot of people have been comparing Trump to Hitler -- the preying on the fearful and resentful with calls to greatness and blanket blame of national problems on scapegoats like the Muslims or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129583,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/on-the-oregon-thing.html","url_meta":{"origin":13688,"position":1},"title":"On the Oregon thing","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Jan-16 5:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I didn't comment on the semi-violent semi-end to the Oregon militia occupation protest thing when it happened the other day because, well, doing Internet things at my mom's house is a special challenge, but after the inevitable It was all a huge conspiracy by the Gummint to shoot down this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132448,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/26\/the-trickle-down-economy-we-have-to-look-forward-to.html","url_meta":{"origin":13688,"position":2},"title":"The Trickle-Down Economy we have to look forward to","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Dec-16 3:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite Clinton's poorly worked efforts to be cute about Trump's Trickle-Down Tax Schemes, the truth of the matter is quite serious. 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