If only Blogs Existed in 1984
I was reading the exchange between Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and CNN's Wolf Blitzer today on Eschaton...
Specter Claim:... along with other items of interest on Fatmixx, and after having seen Donald Rumsfeld caught in a lie on Face the Nation this week, this might be obvious, but it seems that one of the most effective uses of the Internet is the ability to maintain a distributed public record of history. Record-keepers' agendas, biases, and prejudices will always creep into the picture, but because the network is distributed, there is no way to either shut it down or to revise history.
�The Bush administration never made any claim that there was a connection between Saddam and al Qaeda.� � Senator Arlen Specter, 3/21/04Bush Administration Claims:
�There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties.� � President Bush, 9/17/03"There's overwhelming evidence there was a connection between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government. I am very confident that there was an established relationship there." - Vice President Cheney, 1/22/04
"There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented." � National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, 9/25/02
The distributed record keepers always existed in some fashion, I suppose, but personal publishing on the web puts the content out there, and search engines make it accessible, if one is looking for it.
Neat.
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