There is a regulon, it's the brain (Score 1)

I would disagree with this article. Perhaps information does exist in the mind in the way Katz describes, as a type of codfish trying to survive. However, it does have competition, mainly from the prior knowledge and experiences a person has. This can be the basis for a regulon. When I was reading the political propoganda of the last election, did I believe everything one candidate said about another? NO, because it is my past experience that there is significant bias in those statements. For the same reason, I don't find myself going to Slate or MSNBC too much, because I'm pretty sure what I'll find there, and my regulon's get tired of dealing with the crap.

Perhaps Katz has a point in that an uninformed, impressionable reader could take in two peices of completely opposite information presented in the same fashion and not know how to deal with it. However, you can't have an "official" truth, that would be too easy to manipulate to fool the masses. The power of the internet is that you can find anything on anything. True, the boundless amount of information is both a strength and a weakness. However, the "sanitized" version this article seems to point to has much resemblence to mediums such as television, which have been very well compromised and controlled.

If you're really bothered by the vomit that some of the larger information companies have began spewing these days, stop paying attention to it. Turn off your TV, and tell others to do the same. Be a culture jammer. Do something.