Comments on: Desperate Obama-Haters Give Money to Nigerian Scam http://www.artesianmedia.com/blog/2008/11/19/desperate-obama-haters-give-money-to-nigerian-scam/ A blog that seeks to filter the internet into a refreshing, easily-gulped beverage Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:51:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Wireless Geek http://www.artesianmedia.com/blog/2008/11/19/desperate-obama-haters-give-money-to-nigerian-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Wireless Geek Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:38:22 +0000 http://www.artesianmedia.com/blog/2008/11/desperate-obama-haters-give-money-to-nigerian-scam/#comment-19 O.K., let me see if I have this straight. Someone started a blog to make news. Some blogs reported the news while other blogs investigated it. Eventually blogs exposed the original blog as a pottential scam/hoax. The original blog then closed up shop and disappeared. Did I miss anything? I didn't see any mention of the "mainstream" media picking this up and running with it. That leads me, a mere content consumer, to the following observations. 1) The mainstream media filtered this story out (for whatever reason) before any significant ink or video was wasted on it. 2) New media created, spread, investigated and eventually exposed the fraud. It sounds like both media channels worked as I would expect them too. The mainstream media sticks with the low risk stories that are easy to substantiate and defend while New Media takes risks on radical story ideas, digest the story in the public forum, shares the discoveries with its readers and lets the readers decide when it is time to move on to other issues. O.K., let me see if I have this straight. Someone started a blog to make news. Some blogs reported the news while other blogs investigated it. Eventually blogs exposed the original blog as a pottential scam/hoax. The original blog then closed up shop and disappeared. Did I miss anything? I didn’t see any mention of the “mainstream” media picking this up and running with it. That leads me, a mere content consumer, to the following observations.

1) The mainstream media filtered this story out (for whatever reason) before any significant ink or video was wasted on it.

2) New media created, spread, investigated and eventually exposed the fraud.

It sounds like both media channels worked as I would expect them too. The mainstream media sticks with the low risk stories that are easy to substantiate and defend while New Media takes risks on radical story ideas, digest the story in the public forum, shares the discoveries with its readers and lets the readers decide when it is time to move on to other issues.

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