Word: cybergossip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infotainment, talk shows populated by manic commentators are bound to proliferate. (MSNBC has started airing a version of NBC's McLaughlin Group--leather-lunged punditry distilled to its essence--four nights a week.) As with the O.J. trials, Monica has turned sometime "expert" analysts into full-time TV personalities: cybergossip Matt Drudge got a show on Fox News; flaxen-haired lawyer Cynthia Alksne now anchors MSNBC's Equal Time next to Oliver North...
This may give some people pause--and not just because of cybergossip Matt Drudge. When the U.S. Constitution was written, representative government was a necessity. Communication from a citizen to the capital could take weeks. Now government by instant referendum is technologically feasible, and government policy is increasingly based on the ebb and flow of public opinion...
...News' imprimatur and a national platform to Drudge to report on the President. "I wouldn't call what he does reporting," objects University of Virginia professor and media critic Larry Sabato. But Columbia Journalism School dean Tom Goldstein says it is wrong to dismiss Drudge as dispensing mere cybergossip unworthy of respectable news organizations. "Matt Drudge in this case is a legitimate news source," says Goldstein. "He's part of the story...
...miscellany via at least a dozen Websites. Michael Rivero's Vincent Foster page invites the visitor to view a video of an actual suicide by gunshot, while the unofficial Bill Clinton home page features a doctored photograph of the President with his pants around his ankles. Then there's cybergossip Matt Drudge's controversial Drudge Report, which put the Lewinsky story on the Net days before it ran in print. In a sign that Clinton's White House, like Nixon's, takes its adversaries seriously, presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal is currently suing both Drudge and America Online, which runs...
...many investment experts nonetheless remain wary of what they disdain as cybergossip, which is usually delivered anonymously. "The problem is you don't know who you are speaking with and why they are giving you advice," says David Weisman, director of money and technology strategies for Forrester Research Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After all, many posters, as they are called, have a financial interest in the stocks they are discussing...
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