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I think you are absolutely right. I believe there are efforts far and above the entrenched media that will go to the ends of the earth, to shut free speech down, and control the message. For the moment, we have the free will to choose what we believe is true. The left has a highly organized plan to shut down conservative voices, and beyond that, any that question or support their agenda. The events during the Presidential campaign was the final proof for me that the left will do anything to silence perceived and real enemies.
Yup. Anyone who doubts that this is going to be a real war, with real casualties, hasn't the slightest clue about the way the Old Media has been behaving since their Watergate days. Many of them are big L Liberals who got there simply to "change the world" - along with their liberal buddy-buddy professors. Much has been going on under the surface during the last 10-15 years of the internet and talk radio coming to age, and they really haven't seen it coming until this year.
As for me, when eight years ago, the lamestream media stated "We don't think we're going to be covering the political conventions anymore: they've just become an infomercial for the parties", I said to everyone I knew, "Who cares! By then I'll be able to watch them gavel to gavel on the internet!" Most didn't believe me, but that is exactly what has come to pass - and it IS how I watched the RNC convention. This is only the tip of the iceberg as to how the Old Media is going to be marginalized - they will be following the lead of the people in the near future, if they wish to stay in business.
However, they won't go down without a fight. They have not yet gotten very nasty, but they will - and we at FR are on the front lines of those they will be nasty to. By their overt bias against Republicans and conservatives during the last year or three, they have done us a favor though, and hastened their eventual demise.
Dirtboy: You're forgetting how they were determined to bury the SwiftVets, and failed in the end. Remember the story about the Demodog operative in sKerry's campaign HQ saying, "Don't worry about them - that story won't ever get out into the public." WE got it out there, and kept it there, despite all their efforts. I'll agree that this Jordan story is another step in the evolution, but it isn't that great a step, the way I see it.