Increasing Noise Against Bloggers And Alternative Media

from so-called mainstream media (MSM), in case you haven't noticed. Here are two latest "attacks" from the professional, high-caliber high-standard media personalities.

Dennis Lets Zero Hedge Have It (6/30/09 Zero Hedge)

CNBC host Dennis Kneale calling bloggers "digital dickweed, including Zero Hedge.

(Sorry but his whole rant does sound like a skit in Saturday Night Live rejected by the SNL producer.)

Murdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political Extremists" (7/1/09 Infowars.com)

John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”.

"... the blogosphere is all eyeballs and no insights..."

And let me remind you that the government wants to monitor the blogsphere:

Blog Czar Is Next? FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments

And let me also remind you that Obama's Cyber Czar is yet to arrive, and the front runner is not very promising for cyberspace freedom or what's left of it:

Cyber Security Czar Front-Runner No Friend of Privacy (6/22/09 Wired)

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