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.
I'm not forgetting that at all. I fought my local rags when they claimed the Swift Boat vets were liars without proving their claims.
My entire point is that the MSM was part of the battle over the Swifties. But with Eason Jordan, just about the entire story played out without MSM involvement. That is the major change, over just a few months since the Swifties.
"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."
I agree. What everyone is missing is that there were two liberal DEMs who witnessed this attack on our Military and called Eason on it during the forum. I believe they and their friends may have had more to do with the resignation than the blogosphere. I find the swift resignation incredible as LIberals don't resign, because they don't have absolute moral and ethical standards. The point I am trying to make is that this may be a political move by the Dems in the aftermath of 2004. They are trying to remake their image of hating the military and inbred media bias.