The Wall Street Journal's front-page piece today on the fall of Imus (subscription required) highlights the role of Media Matters for America -- and the Internet in general -- in alerting and mobilizing the opposition.
Which means that, contra Daniel Henninger yesterday, the Internet can be a force for civility as well as incivility.
And to my point yesterday, incivility is driven by mainstream media as much or more than new media.
So at the end of the day, it's possible that the Internet doesn't equal incivility. Maybe incivility is just incivility, and the Internet is just the Internet.
Radical, I know, to do without ideology. But there you are.
Beyond that, the lesson for established interests (again) is -- thanks to the 'net, nothing stays hidden for long. So you can't stall, and you can't delay, and if there's something to 'fess up, better to 'fess.
Side note re: Gov. Corzine's crash -- sorry he had to go through that, but it raises the question -- is Tom Wolfe scripting this whole thing?
Oh, and for Imus -- is there such a thing as a corporate Darwin Award?
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