Drudge: It's The Beginning Of A Second Media Century

drudgereport.com ^ | November 4, 2003 | Matt Drudge

[lainie]

But we are living in a new media environment where people can send e-mails. There are a lot of different ways now to communicate. And again, this is a clear example where people rose up, because it was hurtful and vicious on a beloved American character.

[veronica]

Drudge: It's The Beginning Of A Second Media Century

Got that right.

The stranglehold the left had on the media has been broken. The 40-year culture war, which the left was winning, took a big right turn today.

Rush Limbaugh started this, and Matt Drudge picked up the gaunlet. Talk radio and the internet changed everything.

[lainie]

ping

[PaulJ]

Rush Limbaugh started this, and Matt Drudge picked up the gaunlet. Talk radio and the internet changed everything.

And Free Republic, in particular, played no small part.

[lainie]

Bump Bump and more Bumps to that!

[Robert357]

Inquiring minds would like to know who might be the Showtime sponsors of such a "political hit job," just so a few letters can be written to companies to express opinions regarding the purchase of products by those that want to sponsor such rubbish.

[lainie]

Well, Showtime's owned by the same company that owns CBS. So them airing it doesn't necessarily mean they want to. If they think they're going to get a lot of new subscribers over this, well, I think that's pretty naive. But the production company and/or specific execs who made this movie? I don't know. Good question.

[RayChuang88]

The stranglehold the left had on the media has been broken. The 40-year culture war, which the left was winning, took a big right turn today.

Read Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave, specificially the chapter "De-Massifying the Media." What he predicted back in 1979 (when the book was published) has become 2003 reality--and the liberal mainstream media has found out that reality with disastrous consequences (CBS caves on The Reagans and the New York Times loses Editor-in-Chief Howell Raines all in the space of one year).

[veronica]

And Free Republic, in particular, played no small part.

I think that's true. Having a Conservative "water cooler" as it were, around which like-minded people from all over the world can gather, get news, discuss the issues and "rally the troops", has tremendous value on many levels, including activism.

[lainie]

BTW, this seems like a good time to point out one further truth.. in my own lainie truth alert.. living in Southern California as I do. These last two weeks have been rather interesting. I know the rest of the country jokes about not caring about the Los Angeles area, but the truth is a good portion of it was on fire for over a week (and San Diego fared even worse). The national media just about ignored this as a breaking story. They picked it up on Monday morning (10/27), after the fires raged all weekend, but the Internet, and Free Republic in particular, kept the word out about details, news, etc. You simply couldn't get this information anywhere else. The media was SOLIDLY trumped, even here locally.

[lainie]

I wonder how much this little episode will cost CBS monetarily.

[ConservativeMan55]

9 million dollars was put into the project.

[lainie]

It's an army of concerned citizens who are frustrated that main press will not print and go with things. Back in the Lewinsky era last century, or the Kathleen Willeys, or the Brodericks, and it's just an endless series of spiked, suppressed stories. And this was a script that was too hot. And, you know, CBS kept its fingers crossed that no one would expose the details, and it would air and divide a country, which, you know, it didn't get to that point. And I'll just say this, Joe, the notion that Streisand was so intimately involved in this, I think, will be a future story and a defeat on leftest politics disguised as art, because when you start talking about a beloved American president -- and if they went and did a Clinton story, there would be just as much outrage, but I think we're safe to say Les Moonves is not ordering the Clinton saga in any version at this hour.

Amen.

[ConservativeMan55]

www.ronaldreagan.com

[wayoverontheright]

The Fox News, talk radio, internet AXIS OF TRUTH strikes again!

[Weimdog]

The blogsphere has become too big to ignore as well...

http://www.instapundit.com/

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

http://slate.msn.com/id/2090620/

http://andrewsullivan.com/

http://www.marksteyn.com/

http://www.poorandstupid.com/chronicle.asp

http://www.chiefwiggles.blogspot.com/

http://www.rightwingnews.com/

[lainie]

Wow. That's a lotta Barbra Streisand Greatest Hits compilations.

[ConservativeMan55]

BAM!!! The Vast Right Wing Strikes Again!

I'll let you in on a secret...The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy....is America...the red states.

[ConservativeMan55]

9 Million...Dollars.

[lainie]

CBS STATEMENT REGARDING 'THE REAGANS'

"CBS will not broadcast THE REAGANS on November 16 and 18. This decision is based solely on our reaction to seeing the final film, not the controversy that erupted around a draft of the script.

Although the mini-series features impressive production values and acting performances, and although the producers have sources to verify each scene in the script, we believe it does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience. Subsequent edits that we considered did not address those concerns.

A free broadcast network, available to all over the public airwaves, has different standards than media the public must pay to view. We do, however, recognize and respect the filmmakers' right to have their voice heard and their film seen. As such, we have reached an agreement to license the exhibition rights for the film to Showtime, a subscriber-based, pay-cable network. We believe this is a solution that benefits everyone involved.

This was not an easy decision to make. CBS does tackle controversial subjects and provide tough assessments of prominent historical figures and events, as we did with films such as 'Jesus,' '9-11' and 'Hitler.' We will continue to do so in the future."