[vandykelastone]

Yes, I get all my news from Free Republic. All of it. I can no longer bear to watch or hear the likes of Brokaw, Rather, and the rest pitching the news. Are the liberals now upset because someone else besides liberals can post and discuss news? Is their reign of terror over? It would seem so. TOUGH!

[truth_seeker]

"Are the liberals now upset because someone else besides liberals can post and discuss news?"

Of course. Listen to the derisive tone by them, when mention is made of Limbaugh, Drudge, Hannity, etc.

These sources of news information clearly got their credibility the hard way: They earned it in the competitive marketplace for ideas.

Whereas the network media hacks got their credibility by way of monopoly. The NYT is the NYT; same WP, CBS, CNN.

The typical citizen of earlier times assumed credibility (even balance) from the "esteemed" news sources. My 78 year old mother is of that type.

She doesn't know any better. She thinks she is too old to learn computer, too old and tired to change her thinking. She "trusts" the mainstream media.

She was raised a Republican, but has drifted leftward, largely by media manipulation.