Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Micah Sifry: The Rising Tide Of Online Opposition To Paulson's Plunder

Micah Sifry: The Rising Tide Of Online Opposition To Paulson's Plunder: "First, and most telling, is the entry of an infamous Internet meme, the FAIL sign, into yesterday's nationally televised congressional testimony by Paulson and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. This picture, familiar to any of the millions of readers of the FAIL blog, should go down as an icon of our time, the moment when a user-generated online joke became a political protest slogan."

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