21st Century Politics

This blog is about the new politics. It isn’t old style politics anymore. It is like comparing checkers to chess now with the internet, the media and celebrity infused into the process. It is a brand new political game and to me it has become Celibritrics with Celebriticians. You already know what Celebritrics is and what it means. 

It is Celebritician not politician, in the 21st century. It is Celebritrics, with the emphasis on Trics. In an internet age of instant conspiracy theories and mass access to information on the web, the old media guard seems disorganized and uncertain how to move in such a fluid climate of information and mixed messages. In short they are watching the impact of their mass message instantly undermined. You may even call it internet blow back.  

Not withstanding this observation, I still aspire to the career of a modern journalist and believe its role is still relevant but only in a new way that does more then deliver the old message through the new technology. I want this blog to showcase my creativity and political insight to potential employers like the New York Times or the New York Post or even Fox news. 

The best writer is ideologically neutral and knows the counter article before he even puts pen to paper for the original article. I may be the only blogger on the web that is actually hoping for very low hits and very specific readers. The intent is to lose the free agent status, sign onto a team (left or right) permanently and be on my way to using my real name for published work and regular pay.

Hence this blog shows what I can do and also provides a few of my thoughts through the political looking glass which may amuse or shock the occasional person who stumbles across it but ultimately it is intended for the HR department at a newspaper or television network so I can get permanent employment and eat regularly : ) 

21st century politics in an advanced age of mass communication, it is not about policy really anymore. That is a language game that older baby boomer journalists fret over while younger political Gen Y Internet savvy posters post you-tube videos and rhetoric unfiltered. Politics has gone from an 18th century polite pistol duel of 20 steps, to a no holds barred cage match of Ultimate Fighting. Massaging a political message is now about customizing it for your reader and revealing your bias to a modern reader that already knows you are biased. 

The old boomer journalists have been slow to truly recognize how much style over substance rules the day and wins elections, personality over policy. Politics has evolved with the introduction of media technology, first the radio, then the TV, and now the internet to a point that we have to acknowledge it and name it. Politicians are Celebriticians today, so how do you write about it, well read on, whether you are the working class NY Post or the intellectual NY Times…