Rumsfeld Loves Blogs
February 19, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Donald Rumsfeld may be the oldest Defense Secretary ever, but his ideas are sure getting younger. Can you imagine a guy of his stature and in his position plugging blogs? Well, that’s exactly what he did before the Council on Foreign Relations:
“The U.S. government will have to develop the institutional capability to anticipate and act within the same news cycle. That will require instituting 24-hour press operation centers, elevating Internet operations and other channels of communications to the equal status of traditional 20th Century press relations. It will result in much less reliance on the traditional print press, just as the publics of the U.S. and the world are relying less on newspapers as their principal source of information. …
Throughout the world, advances in technology are forcing a massive information flow that dictatorships and extremists ultimately will not be able to control. Blogs are rapidly appearing even in countries where the press is still government-controlled.
Pro-democracy forces are communicating and organizing by e-mail, pagers and blackberries.”
Not bad talk from an elder statement embracing youthful change.
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