The Media Shift From Them To Us

by Danny Schechter
May 8, 2006
CommonDreams.org

Did you know that blogs are proliferating like a proverbial prairie fire with as many 51 million now in existence in just five years? A new one is said to come online every second. This is the most rapid adoption of a new media platform in history, perhaps since the original Tower of Babble in ancient Iraq. There are so many blogs in Iran that many young people refer to their country as ‘blogostan.’”

LONDON — The brilliant novelist and media-maker Afshin Rattansi opens his provocative London novel,