It is truely written that if you let your opponent define the terms, you always lose the debate.
Absolutely. We cannot let the other guys define the issues and the terms. But that is just what is happening, day in and day out, and we have to find a way to turn that around. I think the tea parties are a good start as they seem, generally, less willing to do this. Unfortunately much of what we hear about these events is being filtered through things like FoxNews, and they invariably concede the terms to the Left. Unfortunate.
This is true for now, but we are witness to the birth of the New Media of the Internet and talk radio..Even now with Media OB (order of battle) against us, the Old Media cannot set the agenda. I’m an old timer, and can easily remember the 1970s when the only voice crying out in the wilderness was Buckley’s National Review and Firing Line.
Take Glenn Beck’s rally, for example. This would have been impossible to get off the ground without one cable television channel (Fox), the Internet and talk radio. The success of this rally is an important victory for the New Media.
So without all the new communications technology freedom would be dead in this country and the world. As it stands now, it’s Old Media that’s dying. I mean who reads the NYT, USA Today and the LA Times? They give away free copies at the colleges and the students won’t even pick them up unless they need something to wrap fish in.