This story needs to get out. This guy obviously had this disk for a reason. Tell me where in the press you have seen mention of this?
FReepers vs MSM and again FReepers win.
I saw this story last week:S.D. school crisis plan is found on disk in Iraq San Diego Union Trib ^ | September 30, 2004 | By Kelly Thornton
What concerned me most about this article is the fact that the terrorist was found in June in Iraq and we were just hearing about it in September. Little did I know that "we" would be among the very few that were hearing about it.
Yesterday, I was listening to Rush and heard a caller talking to Roger Hedgcock (standing in for Rush), and recognized the story. My thought then was, "hmmmm, I saw this a week ago on FRee Republic and didn't hear anything about it in the MSM, wonder if it will get play time now?"
Woke up this morning, and surprise, surprise, it was TOP story on every single station.
Now my question is, why did CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN and even FOX fail to do anything with this information? Why were all the NEWS(?) networks scooped by a caller to a conservative talk show? The original story was AP report and not a single mention by the MSM.
When I tell people that my primary news source is FRee Republic, they think I am kidding. My logic is sound. Here, I choose what I want to read, what catches my eye, what stays bounced to the top, I have fact checkers and checkers of the fact checkers, I have thousands of eyes and ears, who notice, and report things of interest to themselves, or things that might be interesting to others.
I don't know if Roger's caller yesterday was a FReeper, I would not be surprised to find out that he was, but I am confident that we would not be hearing this story from the MSM had he not called Rush's Show.
New Media wins again!
(cross posting to related threads)