Today’s Western Mail provides Peter Black with space to expound on the valuable contributions that Facebook and Twitter can make in helping politicians like him interface with the public.
If you try hard, you can almost detect a tinge of sincerity behind the yada yada about social-networking and fledgling online-democracy. So what if the approach only generates comparatively low e-numbers (so to speak) - at least you can feel that it is an attempt at engagement.
But the credibility all comes apart at the end when he prosaically claims:
"... in my mind, that little 'e' in e-democracy stands for much more than 'electronic'. For it to be truly meaningful we must also make it stand for a few other words – ones that do not smack of an attempt to be part of the zeitgeist – words such as 'egalitarian' and 'equality of access'. Or maybe just 'everyone'."
As if it didn't also stand for 'ego'.
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Eejit?
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