There are deep flaws in the blogs, media reports, and official statements, which purport to describe world historic events and changes.
These so-called âup-to-dateâ reports of major world events undergo repeated revisions in hours, days or weeks as the story is being âplayed outâ. What might start out as a âscoopâ for the upwardly mobile journalist is transformed into a by-word for a âcritical bloggerâ rewriting mainstream reports by simply substituting negatives for pluses (or vice versa).
âImmediacyâ trumps historical context and structural understanding. Protagonist or antagonists of the moment are demonized , slandered and scandalized, or lauded , praised and iconized.