And what on earth do you think you’ve won?
Fewer media outlets, particularly in the times we’re living in and in the turbulence that may lie ahead, is NOT a good thing.
Your myopia and your ignorance of history is astounding.
Ignorance of history? LOL!
For starters, tell me about Guttenberg.........are we better or worse off since he demolished the idea of only a few people having access to the written word?
What is happening now may very well be on par with Guttenberg.
Over time, even the more dense citizens begin to see the disconnect between what the papers reports and what they have learned from personal experience. They will find reports to confirm their reality, whether it be anonymous pamphleteers in the 1700's or internet blogs in present times.
While individual citizens may lack a large budget to fund investigative reporting teams, we can utilize online data to aid our own reporting. And we can do it with a wider perspective than we got from the NYTimes or WashPost. Just look at the reporting errors you see every day that FReepers are so good at spotting.
In the forty years of my adult life, I have been a voracious reader of newspapers of all stripes, learning of many people, places and events, but a decade ago I came to the conclusion that most, if not all large papers had become, if not organs of the state, organs of the left-wing agenda. The only thing I learned anymore was how total the propaganda had become.
We are not necessarily heading into fewer outlets for information, but a wider selection, if not always dependable. Not that the MSM was always dependable either. Most cetainly we are headed into a very turbulent period, but we will be better informed whether by internet, fax, phone. Or Paul Revere.