[Southack]

"Three dramatic departures in recent days have highlighted the one-strike-and-you're-out nature of trial by Internet. Eason Jordan quit under pressure as CNN's chief news executive Friday night over his remarks on U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq, following a relentless campaign by online critics but scant coverage in the mainstream press. In past episodes, journalists have been forced to resign, or news organizations to admit error, after Web commentators helped push a controversy into newspaper and television reports. In Jordan's case, the middle step was all but skipped."

The beauty of this paradigm shift is that *because* the Corrupt Old Media insists upon trying to spike stories about the treason among their own kind, that leaves us as the sole players to frame the issue.

The irony is that they could have better protected their own (e.g. Rather, Mapes, Raines, Jordan) had they covered the respective scandals hard enough. Instead, all of the tough questions, and all of the useful data, was found in areas that they didn't control on-line.

Nor has the Corrupt Old Media learned its lesson yet. For instance, the Corrupt Old Media still hasn't published the contents of Senator Rockefeller's leaked Senate Intel Committee memos...which means that we can go after that Democrat at a time and place of our choosing. That entire story is ours, and ours alone, to shape as we see fit...simply because the Corrupt Old Media isn't competing with us in framing said issue.

Ditto for the Sandy Berger theft and destruction of top secret U.S. intel.

Ditto again for the Washington Post's subterfuge and conspiracy to keep MD4Bush's identity and relationship to reporters secret. Such actions leave the entire playing field open to us, where we can go at our own pace and will.

Thus, in their desire to see big scandals remain anonymous, they leave the playing field open to bloggers and political forums.

Ooooh, throw me into that briar patch!

[Grampa Dave]

The continuing arrogance of the MSM Mediots to ignore these stories and to spike them plays right into our skills.

They can ignore and spike them all they want too. The truth gets out on the internet, and soon the pressure like a tidal wave removes the bad actors, not funny commedians, tone deaf singers, publishers, reporters, anchor men and now Jordan has been crossed.