[prairiebreeze]

This is the kind of story that would normally be consigned to page A14 of the New York Times, as indeed it was. But instead of dying there, it's been kept alive by other news outlets, notably Fox News.

I hope it continues to be kept alive. My impression is that it's cooling off though...even with FOX. Hope I'm wrong.

Prairie

[swilhelm73]

The key to the collapse of the leftist monopoly isn't FOXN, though that has been helpful. We are sitting in front of the medium that brought it down - the internet.

No, most people aren't going to read FR.com, AS.com, NRO.com, etc, but enough people are getting and recieving straight information through the internet that it has formed a critical mass.

Consider, as a similar stories the fact that most Americans know the media has been trying to paint a very different picture then what is really going on in Iraq, and that after three years of manufaturing scandals, the leftists have yet to make one stick on the President.

The leftist gatekeepers no longer are...they now are merely one more source of information, and one that most Americans view with deep suspicion.

[KC_Conspirator]

Close observers of Capitol Hill, too, are amazed at the "legs" being displayed by the disclosure of a Senate Intelligence Committee memo on how Democrats can use hearings to embarrass the president. This is the kind of story that would normally be consigned to page A14 of the New York Times, as indeed it was.

I believe the Rumsfeld memo was front page news at the Slimes, even though there was nothing bad or incriminating. It should be the lead story, but I doubt that any of the big three covered it.