CBB,
Firstly keep up the good work. I am a relatively new reader of your posts.
Secondly, in reading literally THOUSANDS of posts related to Jeff Gannon, Eason Jordan, Dan Rather (who?), we seem to have settled in with an understanding that it was 'all the rest of us' warring with the MSM. MSM (television branch) seemed to think that by ignoring the internet forums, chats, aggravated viewers and listeners, everyone would eventually get tired, shut up and go away. But that didn't happen.. more and more the battle shifted to the internet. With published internet pieces being called into question, debated, debunked, self-corrected, and in some cases invitimg a participatory audience, the old medium for dispensing the news and spoon feeding us opinions we ought have, has suffered a lethal blow. It was the abuse of pubic trust, that removed all credibility from the OLD medium, and the speed to the truth, that'll bury them.
That said, there is another level of a battle brewing as I see it . It's not left v right, TV v internet (forums, blogs etc.), is OLD VERSUS NEW.
The failures of network news to report (fairly) and shove pre-screened, neatly packaged agenda items down it's viewers throats, FORCED people to go to the internet for the news. Clicking about, finding voices that sounds like yours, then, human nature is to know what others are saying. Voices from all political stripes weighing rumor against the facts, and coming down with a conclusion made for ones own self. Some of the cyber voices are founded and fueled by hatred. Proudly wearing their bias, is actually a good thing for a reader to know going in. The smoke and mirrors scam by the alphabet networks is taking it's last breaths. It's own blatent bias and arrogance forced us to take our 'business' elsewhere. I'll make up my own mind now thank you.
But I see a second wave. That being the left TV newsies, battling it out with their lefty forums, bloggers etc., for delivering the news. Let me add this: the TV / Print News orgs are USED to setting the agenda.. but that is not necessarily the case in cyber world. Right or left there are different flavors, and TO ME, it's even more threatening to the left to allow the fringe in their own party take control the message, while losing control of the party. Afterall, what is a lefty these days? To me, they're a collection of special interest wackjobs. There is no unified cohesive BELIEVABLE vision coming out of that wing.
The media *age* is changing. And Jurassic Park is closing.
My 2 cents.
I've been writing about this stuff for a long time now. What is coming will be a fight to the finish demanding an unconditional surrender. Six months ago, I wrote for not the first time:
To: Timeout
I stated (at length in discussions) on a thread a couple days ago that this is now not only a battle between the SwiftVets and the peaceniks of the 60s, but that this campaign has become a battle - a great battle - between the Old Media Fraudcasters and other mediots, and the New Media - with talk radio/ internet/ blogs.
This has become a battle to the death. Only one will be left standing. The 'Nam Vets (including me and many of my fellows in arms) are not going to be able to be silenced by the President or by the Demodogs or by the Fraudcasters. We know the truth. There is a great well of support we can draw on, and righteous anger about the way we have been treated. Many others are just as angry about how they have been misled by the Fraudcasters and the NYSlimes, et al, and they are now seeing a way to "get a bit of their own back."
The Old Media and the Fraudcasters have gotten away with lying for so long now, and the critical mass of people has been reached who understand it and now are fed up with that. Don't be surprised if some of those outlets are no longer "news" outlets four years from now.
It is a monumental struggle now. Many realize it, too. It will result in monumental changes in the way the bulk of people get their news.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1204754/posts?page=3683#3683 3,683 posted on 09/02/2004 1:08:14 AM EDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
Our enemy will use every weapon and trick they can in an attempt to lower our influence. The FRAUDcasters of the Old Media are out to get us --- don't ever forget that, and keep it in mind as we carry on our First Amendment assault against the Fourth Estate, which has become a "fifth column" against Traditional America and traditional values.
I am dead serious about this being a major war.
You and I and other FReepers are in the dead center of this battle - whether we realize that or not. The Leftists who "went into journalism" in the 60s and 70s to "change the world" are at war with traditional values of traditional America. Their major obstacle now, and for some years, has been the internet.
It is only since Drudge's "blue dress" report that they became even peripherally aware of that. The 'net carrying the SwiftVets to prominence, and the rapid destruction of CBS' FRAUDcast, to name only two recent battles, has brought the Old Media to realize that they are under attack, at long last. Their walls are crumbling, and their empire is failing. Bush's victory despite FOUR YEARS of bashing by the Old Media talking heads and transparent bias of the MSM news to those of us who have worked toward understanding the truth, was a severe blow to them. They will be reeling for two years from this and won't be able to believe it.
They don't like it, and they will fight this as hard as they can. They'll do all they can to deter more people from joining the ranks of those free from their influence. But - they will lose in the end.
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