Time magazine reduces mainstream media to mere bloggers

While poking around the web this afternoon looking for something interesting to talk about I ran across this article in response to Time magazine’s recent issue that named “Everyone” as Person of the Year. The writer writes for the Washington Post Writers Group and while reading his article I began to feel a little unappreciated. That I and so many others worked so hard to earn this prestigious award and to have a “professional” come out and say that 99.9 percent of what we all do lacks “seriousness” is rather hurtful or spiteful, maybe even a little jealous. It goes something like this:

There are, however, essentially no reins on the Web — few means of control and direction. That is good, but vitiates the idea that the Web’s chaos of entertainment, solipsism and occasional intellectual seriousness and civic engagement is anything like a polity (a “digital democracy”). Time’s bow to the amateurs who are, it strangely suggests, no longer obscure, and in the same game that Time is in, is refuted by a glance — which is all an adult will want — at You-Tube’s most popular videos.

What’s this guy smoking anyway? What rock has he been under for the last few years. Does the fact he can use words that are bigger than most vocabularies mean he’s better than the rest of us? Maybe it’s that he feels the pressure of real-time news and information or is beginning to understand the reality of the mainstream media; that it’s antiquated and idealistic with it’s own agenda based on the time period. The Blogosphere is none of that, and because it’s none of that, it provides alternatives for people to get information and express themselves. Some of it is serious, some of it is not, but it has something the main stream media lacks, personality and emotion.

Check out the article, then let us know what you think.