There seems to be a rather lot of noise online about a new "liberal left super blog" called Liberal Conspiracy. Radio 4's "iPM" show are doing a piece on it it seems, and had I responded to the email request sooner then perhaps they would have spoken to me about it instead of that evil reprobate Guido. I guess you'll just have to put up with my opinion on it in text rather than my ever so horrible voice on a podcast -this is probably better.
The long and short of it is this. It will be a raging success in the minds of those who will be talking amongst themselves on it. Like any collaborative team effort it will, I'm sure, follow the Tuckman model with one crucial difference. Online collectives rarely live long enough to reach the final "performing" stage and few ever manage to get to the third "norming" stage.
The key to it's success really will be if it can be edgy. If it can't then it will just end up being a site for wonkery. Produced by wonks, read by wonks, who regularly talk about things like "engaging in conversation with the electorate" whilst living in a Weberian fantasy world. Lets hope it doesn't go the way of one of its contributers, New Generation Network, which for a think tank doesn't actually appear to have done very much in the last year.
N.B. I tip my hat to the genius name "Liberal Conspiracy", very amusing, very postmodern, and totally missing the point of the valid criticism about certain orthodox thinking in the UK.
7 comments:
Classic
"Why does the left need blogs, when it has the BBC"
Hat tip to the producer of the PM programme, for allowing Mayer to read it out.
Why indeed?
The right wings blogs are popular as they provide a counterbalance to the somewhat leftwing 'mainstream' media in this country.
The reverse is true in the US.
Just odd that they can't see that the BBC is probably one of the main recents for the success of right wings blogs here.
Heh, good post Dizzy, exactly what I was hoping for. :D
I knew I would be playing into the hands of the conspiracy
The right wings blogs are popular as they provide a counterbalance to the somewhat leftwing 'mainstream' media in this country.
Hahahahaha
Oh, plueeeezzzeee. That would be the rabid left-wing press we suffer.
The Express. The Mail. The Telegraph. The Sun. The News of the World. The Times.
Oh, no, wait... get real.
Right-wing blogs tend more towards facts, discussion and just as importantly humour..! (but not always)
Tygor is classic left-wing, humourless, moronic and probably aged 7 years old intellectually.
The left have often justified the bias of the BBC by reference to the supposedly right wing Press but the truth is the Press is there for you to choose from every morning . You don`t like the Telegraph , buy the Guardian. It cannot itself be a biasing factor.
Dizzy what is this norming and performing thing all about ?
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