STRATEGERY: BUSH CHEERS DECLINE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA, RISE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESS

drudgereport/strategery ^ | 2/28/2006 | drudge

[BigSkyFreeper]

Even when presented with the fact that the time stamp defaults to Pacific Standard time when one is not logged on she thinks she was set up.

Mapes was duped by her own stupidity.

[FreedomFarmer]

It is somewhat akin to watching a game of Japanese Go.
Buy the paper, claim the territory.

It's being done with borrowed money for market share. Before the bill comes due, the chain is sold off to a bigger player.

The Press actually created the United States, long before the first shot was fired. It now seems content to destroy it's greatest achievement.

There will always be some kind of newspaper around, but its influence will continue to degrade.

[nightowl]

Bill Sammon's new book, "Strategery", is #3 at Amazon.com right now. I ordered mine Sunday and it will be delivered tomorrow. I Can't wait. I've purchared all of Bill Sammon's books on the President and the one about how Gore tried to steal the 2000 election. They are all great reads.

[Desparado]

I grew through my "young Man" years devouring Esquire in the 60's and 70's. It was like Playboy but without all the fold outs. But now I can't even look through it without gagging! It's turned into some kind of Gay Cosmo or something. Another great mag destroyed by the PC people.

[patj]

What are those 2 women in the middle known for?

[Buckhead]

Gotta admit, this is pretty cool.

[CedarDave]

I am thrilled that I was there on those threads that night when Buckhead, Howlin,TankerKC, and other freepers did the work of exposing those Rather/Mapes lies......an exciting night!

I was there too but a Johnny-come-lately the next morning.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

“It looks like somebody conspired to float false documents,” the president tells author Bill Sammon. “And I was amazed about it. I just couldn’t believe that would be happening [and] then it would become the basis of a fairly substantial series of news stories.

Below is fake CBS document overlayed by Microsoft Word in default mode......courtesy Little Green Footballs..

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..This is big Mapes...get it on the air immediately....by the way...whose Lucy Rameriz?

[foreshadowed at waco]

I loved The Third Wave...I read it in 1994 right after hearing Gingrich recommmend it on an interview show shortly after the takeover of the House...he said that as an historian and a politician it helped him understand how the world changed and how trends operate to alter the social landscape...for those who don't know we are supposedly in the midst of the 3rd wave--the communication revolution (the 1st wave was agricultural and the 2nd was industrial) which is why we are in a state of global upheaval...like the medieval world of the Middle East having to face the realities of the 21st century due to the internet and satellite technology...Toeffler was a genius IMHO...I taught 8th grade history and used the template of the 3 waves to show how societal advances led to tension and eventual conflict when the old order and the new order struggled for dominance. It really helped my kids see the big picture.

[Candor7]

You gotta luv it !!!!! Payback time.

[Tribune7]

NPR should be sold with no more tax dollars going to support its propaganda.

Ditto

[rockthecasbah]

Gee, you probably don't like Katie Couric

[RoseofTexas]

SLOWLY BUT SURELY!!

[expatpat]

where will bloggers and forums such as this one get their national and international news?

From the same place as now, the news agencies like AP, where most of the newspapers get their story.

[farlander]

WSJ, IBD. That's about it.

[RobbyS]

The Middle East is not medieval. The Christian or medieval West was entering the age as modern technology just as Islam was lapsing into late classical methods. You can get a hint of this by reading Gibbons' discussion of the end of the Byzantine Empire. The Turks in a sense recreated the Roman Empire, but because it was, like Rome, built on slavery, domination, and looting it did not welcome science and capitalism. After one last surge in the 1680s, the Ottoman retreat began and ended with its overthrow in 1919.

[Steve_Seattle]

esquire

Yes, I recall back in the 60s and 70s Esquire was an intelligent magazine, and now it's become a shallow piece of crap for girly-men. I agree entirely.

[freema]

What would be really funny would be if his FReeper name was pissant.

[Boazo]

Heh Heh,LOL

[RayChuang88]

What is happening is perhaps the greatest democratization of communications technology since the arrival of the hot-metal moveable-type printing press in 1449.

As Hugh Hewitt said in his book Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World, when Johann Gutenberg invented a substantially cheaper way to produce books, it made it possible to pass human knowledge on an unpredecented scale; this made the Reformation possible in the first place. Today, the modern public Internet is doing the same thing to the MSM, and note how the MSM companies are losing money fast due to this change.