Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

Ah. Another horrific event in NYC. Another week of webloggers’ breathless “reporting.” You can almost hear the smugness of tone, the underlying hope of validation: I hope I am right, because then I can say “I told you so.” As if the last five decades of “traditional” news reporting will be somehow invalidated because of a handful of bloggers happened to stumble upon the correct conspiracy theory. Bloggers bicker and argue and post their daily affirmations (”You’re the best kind of weblogger. Way to go!”), engage in serious, beard-stroking discussions of the “role” of weblogs and despair over how the use of the word synergy is bringing about the collapse of Western society through corporate oppression.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, music is being played in the streets for the first time in years, and women are shedding their burquas and are being told they can work and ride bicycles and go to school again, without fear.