Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults used the Internet to get political news last year, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That's up from 4 percent in 1996 and 18 percent in 2000.
Television remained the dominant medium for most voters, but 18 percent said they got most of their political news from the Internet, compared with 17 percent who said they turned to the radio for their news.
It's still the radio for me while I commute. Freeping while driving is just too complicated in rush hour traffic.
What the heck is this "television" thing that the article speaks about?
yeah, people are checking the websites of their favorite RADIOhosts.
I haven't watched network news since 1989.
Speaking for myself, I find that it is much easier to confirm or refute news stories via the internet than through any other source. That is why the internet enjoys a greater appeal for the critically-thinking. I can gather my sources, check them, and decide about the information's reliability for myself, rather(no pun intended) than relying on someone else to do my critical thinking for me.
That is what the MSM and liberal press hates about the internet. Those of us who turn to the web for our information, and who bother to check for the reliability of the information, have caught every sneaky little lie that the MSM tries to sneak through. The MSM cannot live in an environment that promotes critical thinking. It infuriates the MSM that the majority of Americans no longer accept their version of the news as gospel truth.
The 2004 Presidential campaign taught us one very important lesson: while the American citizen enjoys freedoms to a far greater degree than in other nations, our freedom comes with this charge: that in order to prevent our freedoms and values from being undermined from forces within and without, we each must always take on as a personal individual responsibility the practice of VIGILANT, CRITICAL THINKING.
When we stop thinking, the press begins to do our thinking for us. Do we really want to go there again? Do we want the MSM to try to force us back to that point?
We have to be ready to fight the MSM at every turn whenever they attempt to deny our right to the truth. We have to fight them through our remotes, at the newsstands, and in the halls of government. Especially in the halls of government, because you can bet your butts that the MSM will throw everything it has legislating us out of our right to freedom of access to and exchange of information. The MSM does not want to be held accountable for what presents as truth but is really a lie. They would rather push their quisling legislators to enact laws that would force us back to them.
So, we have to fight them.
Until we hit them where it hurts- their pocketbooks-those who currently run the press will never return to a point where we can trust them again. As it is, the press shows no interest in promoting the truth. They just do not get it.
So unless and until they do, we have no recourse but to do all we can as citizens to neutralize the seditious voice of the MSM. It is a matter of national survival.