The blessings of the Internet are many, but one casualty of our segmentation into online subcultures is the loss of a common focal point. It is easy for a president or prime minister to ignore a thousand Web sites; the multiplicity of outlets and voices online, paradoxically, has weakened the media’s power to force accountability from leaders.
虽然网络拥有众多优点，但新闻业介入网络次文化之后的一大牺牲则是失去了公众共同关注的焦点。一位总统或一名首相可以很容易地忽略掉一千个网站；而更荒谬的是，网络传播渠道和声音的多样性却反而削弱了媒体监督政治领导人履行其义务的能力。