On the mainstream media and the blogosphere

F.A. Hayek, in The Road to Serfdom, proved that central economic planning not only didn't work, but that it must lead to totalitarianism, becuase the only action planners could take when their initial attempts at central control failed would be to implement more strict and punitive measures. If you haven't read it, I personally consider it to be the most important book written during the twentieth century.

It occurred to me last night that the howls of outrage from the MSM about blogs are also manifestations of a failure of central planning/top down control: the central planning and top down control of the flow of information. They are in the process of discovering that to those who are bereft of plumage, the drafts are quite chilly.