How to people come to decisions about what side or other they're sticking with? The media has been "telling" people what to think for years. The decline in traditional media is on a parellel with the decline of the traditional Democrat.
9/11 was a milestone, not in the decline itself, but in the masses actually noticing "hey - something's wrong here".
this author is a first year law student, and tells it like he sees it...another example of the Y generation learning and deciding what is right for them.
You are right; 9/11 was a wake up call for those who still believed that they were getting honest reporting from the BigMedia. Election2000 turned many of us away, but 9/11 cemented it...
if he isn't a freeper YET, he should become one...