Katie’s Beer

Thanks to Suzi at Swansmith for pointing out Dr. Albert Mohler’s latest article on bloggers. She writes:

This morning, as I was looking for commentary to help me on my post at Blogging for Light, I came across an article at Crosswalk by Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Seminary. His article was entitled “A Common Culture in the Age of Blogging?” and wrote about how bloggers have retreated from the mainstream media and begun a new phenomena of their own–the blogosphere.

Among other things, he writes: “In a strange twist of irony, the culture of Western civilization may survive through the efforts of a core of dedicated bloggers who are unwilling to see it die. The media elite will simply have to watch from a distance, scratching their heads as they watch their audience disappear and their influence dissipate. The long-term impact of the blogging revolution is yet to be seen. Nevertheless, the toppling of the mainstream media’s monopoly is a cultural achievement in itself. May the revolution continue.” Read on…

Good post, Suzi. I do enjoy many of Dr. Mohler’s articles, despite the obvious Lutheran/Baptist differences. He is an excellent observer and commentator on today’s world. I, too, think that bloggers are the common man rising up to say, “I’ve had enough of newspaper and television reports that try to tell me what to think and what exists.” There are enough of us now that we can accurately relay news to each other. That’s really cool, I think. Even if our kids don’t see it yet.

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