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To: grandpa jones

"The political left owns the internet ..."

Sorry - this is a false premise and I don't accept it.

MoveOn is not the be all end all of the internet. And .. FR has been here longer and has more sane members.


3 posted on 11/11/2006 8:17:36 AM PST by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: CyberAnt
A few months ago, I agreed with your assessment.

What has changed, in my mind, is not my opinion of FR, the quality of its membership, or the right blogosphere as a whole, but instead the platform on which our side is based, and how that affects the stories which drive the daily news cycle.

User-driven news content accounts for the majority of the news stories which get the attention of the daily cycle. And those user-driven networks are dominated by the left.

The right is dominated by talk radio and a few A-list blogs, like FR. We are very good at focusing the attention of the news cycle on a specific story of interest. The premise of Cox's article, as well as my post, was that we on the right have conceded the vast user-driven platforms to the left. The result has been that 3 or 4 out of the top 5 news stories each day are lefty-oriented. We can either blame that on the "Liberal Media", or look at the underlying causes for the placement of those news stories to begin with.

Thanks for your comment

4 posted on 11/11/2006 5:44:55 PM PST by grandpa jones (Responding To The Epic Threat)
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