i think these guys are on to something.

i'm selfish as hell. this comment is all the evidence of that anyone should need.

'attention-deprived' and 'lonely' are redundancies, right?

and with regard to 'shallow and in some instances unnecessarily controversial and immoral'? exhibitionism in the blogosphere requires nothing more than hits. hits usually follow immoral controversy, which is generally shallow enough to encourage the lowest common denominator to wade in and happily splash about. and then tell all their stupid friends about my blog. and hopefully some of their friends are girls who are easily impressed and plan to visit nyc soon.

did anyone mention 'condescending' and 'elitist'?

why do people even bother who these bloggers are? gezz. get a life lah. who bloody cares abt their bloody lives. they are not the foundation of society where the people build their lives and homes on! their mere noises! very noisy sometimes thats all. but it is the leaders that are the REAL STARS of the show!iif these leaders dont live up to what they preach, we are doom!so, dont play play the minds and shift attention away from the real stars. stars shine so bright can blind the eyes one man!

Blogging is just another form of mass communication. A milder form of mass communication than traditional journalism. Whatever they say we are, they are, X 1000 times. If we are narcissistic, then they are, X 1000, etc. If we are the "me" generation, they are the "me me me me me" generation.

This follows hot on the heals of stomp as another way to supplant our traditional values of journalistic independence and accountability to nobody. Stomp clearly stands for "stomping out".

To this and possibly future attempts of the Singaporean media to a.) turn the blogging phenomenon into a walled garden where they call the shots and set the rules, b.) stem the tide of revolution from conglomerate journalism to citizen journalism, c.) inculcate a uniform culture of mindless mass consumption and obedience,

I quote my favourite lyric from the Stone Roses:

"Kiss me where the sun don't shine,
the past is yours but the future's mine.
You're all out of time."

Good post sieteocho. To have the show hosted by 2 people with similiar views about blogging [that is it mainly about exhibitionism] is going to produce a biased program.

Let's see why a famous blogger, Kenny Sia, started his blog.

"I started this website because I wanted to chronicle the drastic changes over that tumulous period in my life. My blog began from when I was still living in Perth, to when I decided to move back to Kuching, to when my father left for a better place, to me experiencing reverse culture shock settling down here, and finally to me becoming the person that I am today."

The media's perennial obssession about bloggers speaks volumes.

That because the mainstream media is steadily losing readers, hence the insecurity. I know quite a few people who stopped reading the main papers here a few years back.

Thats unwarranted. ST has always been a reliable source of comic relief for many faithful readers
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`it must be true`

YEh, and I want to add that mainstream media all over the world have always had a lot to answer for because they are usually complicit in a lot of shit that happens:
1. Rwanda genocide - killers were encouraged and given directions on radio.
2. Nazi regime - propaganda
3. Communist rule in USSR - propaganda
4. Great leap forward (and subsequent famine) - policies were broadcast on state media
5. Serbian nationalism and Bosnia, Kosovo - propaganda
6. Dot com bubble - NSBC
7. Israeli - Palestinian conflict - events are dictated by right wing media in USA
8. Japanese non admission of war guilt - propaganda

(List is in no particular order of greatness)

no... Hamas is dictated by US because it is spelled the same backwards. We vote for everybody, resulting in a large number of invalid votes.

you guys have got to watch more of Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert on Youtube.

end of the day, media control and influence is for political power. the incumbent wants to keep the silent majority happy in their own interests.

This is shocking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlDlAkonJU
What do you guys think? Find any connections?

What's wrong with blogging ah?

We must be doing something right, 'cos everyone seems to want to be part of the community (or at least, get to know us, albeit on a rather inaccurately-put television programme).

I think blogging deserves plaudits. We are all these tiny reporters spread out all around the world, doing some small article on ourselves and the environment around us. This information is streamlined across the most extensive network in the world. True, not everything is accurate, but at least with so many articles floating around, the big picture is never absent.

Take that, mainstream media.

Let's just hope that the two hosts behind blogtv.sg understand the diverse motivations for blogging. For some, blogs are online diaries documenting personal aspects of lives which might be similarly faced by others. For the rest of us, blogs represent the most democratic platform for expressing our opinions. It's as varied as the the Internet itself, more socially connective than regular media, and as such, should not be stereotyped as a simply forms of personal diatribes.

You'd be surprise that some disguise their personal diatribes by calling them "opinions".

STOMP, aka mainstream media, is blowing Tomorrow out of the water!

Well, as someone who was actually talked into doing the show, let me say one thing. Lin and the Flying Dutchman do NOT say negative things about blogging to portray a negative opinion about it. Precisely the opposite In fact, they want the guests to react to it. Their questions should be looked at as more like prompts than being their actual opinions. It largely depends on who the guests are and how game they are to play, and stand up for what they do. The episode with me in it hasn't aired, but I have high hopes, especially since it is 'live to tape', hence I doubt there will be much cutting and splicing, unlike my unpleasant Rea! Talk experience which made me impulsively foreswear all TV contact :)

Have I got something for you. Here's some powder that we've imported from South America. Have a sniff, I think you're going to like it.

No, let's be fair to those guys. Let's wait till they foul up, then we'll continue bashing them.

Channel News Asia have their focus on the thousands and thousands of blogs run by our youth today - mostly personal blogs, rather than the corporate blogs.

And I thought Channel Newsasia supposed to be THE news channel for the corporate professionals...