IPDI’s Carol Darr is an idiot
p2pnet.net News:- The US Center for National Policy`s Carol Darr is a dolt.
Who says so?
Dana Blankenhorn on Corante in an open note to, the nice people at the Pew Charitable Trusts.
George Washington University put Darr in charge of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, and she has proven to be, well, not to put too fine a point on it, an idiot, says Blankenhorn.
Clueless, in the parlance of this blog. To be blunt about it, she is using [Pew] money given for promoting democracy on the Internet in order to destroy it.
Specifically, he continues, she has urged that the Federal Elections Commission [FEC] hold independent bloggers to the same standards we hold political parties. In other words if you write online about politics, and if you have an opinion, then your ability to raise money is controlled, your spending is controlled, you are, in short, under their jurisdiction.
Nor is daily KOS overly impressed with La Darr.
Pointing out that her group submitted comments to the FEC arguing against giving citizen media a media exemption, it states:
What a steaming pile of you know what! Here’s a community project. Use the comments to list examples of how political activists have permeated the `news media` to `blur that distinction`.
Make no mistake, this attempt by Ms. Darr is just the latest by academic pinheads to degrade the role of citizens in the media space. They once dominated the industry, and can’t stand that literally anyone and EVERYONE is now media.
Bottom line, adds, Blankenhorn, The purpose of your grant has been perverted, turned toward the opposite of its intended purpose. You need to know this so you can take appropriate action.
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See:-
Corante – A Note to, June 10, 2005
daily KOS – IPDI nonsense: “must protect media from bloggers!”, June 2, 2005
