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

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

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper's...

[BigSkyFreeper]

If the big dailies continue to lay-off and go out of business, where will bloggers and forums such as this one get their national and international news?

Where they always go. The internet.

[Geronimo]

GWB may be a freeper. LOL

At least a lurker, and I'm sure Rove is here everyday...

[A message]

Peter 2:22

22 But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.

[BigSkyFreeper]

GWB may be a freeper. LOL

LOL!  Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants?

 

[johnny7]

Now I 'gotta buy it!

[sport]

I do too. In fact, I would cheer louder if main stream media organizations would go completely broke.

[DBrow]

A good example of bias is the continuing story that the Coast Guard raised flags on the Dubai port deal, when the Coast Guard online says they were misquoted.

If you only get the disinformation from MSM, you will believe one thing; if you see it online you'll get corroboration before you decide.

I agree with Bush and Rove: the "new media" phenomenon is good, but there is a dark side too. Comes down to personal responsibility, IMO.

[sport]

They can't do more "hit pieces". They are already doing "hit pieces" as fast as their presses can print.

[teddyballgame]

I gotta get this book, I've loved all the excerpts. One of the bisggest stories over the last couple of years has been the absoluyte fall of the MSM. Their influence and reliability and their blatant bias has caused the rise of alternative sources like the internet, Fox News, & Talk Radio.

[squarebarb]

Nature abhors a vacuum.

[M203M4]

Hey, upper right hand corner, the one with the tiny head - is that Buchanan?

[Youngman442002]

This week in Orlando Florida is the big media advertising buyers convention...it should be interesting to see the numbers....afterall I think most of the circulation numbers the media uses are false...here in Denver the two papers give out free ones to up their numbers..and hence higher ad costs

[Mind-numbed Robot]

If the big dailies continue to lay-off and go out of business, where will bloggers and forums such as this one get their national and international news?

If all else fails, the blogs can get the news the way it is done now, make it up. :-)

If there is a market for print media there will be print media. The problem with it is with the internet by the time you get your paper in the morning you have already read nearly everything in it. However, several new magazines appear each year and some stick around.

[SittinYonder]

Where they always go. The internet.

But many of the articles posted here come from large daily newspapers. By and large, bloggers don't go out and do reporting. The news stories have to come from somewhere initially, and this is something that I've wondered about many times while watching the decline of traditional news media.

I'm not saying I'll miss the liberal bias, and I won't miss editors attempting to set their own agendas. But I do wonder what will replace the Chicago Tribune or the Washington Post or the New York Times, for that matter.

Someone is going to have to put the news on the internet.

[BlueStateDepression]

an army of self-appointed experts looking over the shoulder of the mainstream media

That is exactly why the MSM hates the blogosphere so much. They have held the position of being the ones to look over other's shoulders for so long that they have forgotten about people looking over their own shoulders.

I find it hilarious that they claim to be defending the truth as a check and balance to the government when it comes to information......but then they abhor any check and balance directed at keeping them as 'honest' as they think they keep the government.

[RayChuang88]

If you really want to know where the first person who suggested that as communications technologies improve the MSM will suffer greatly, go read Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave. Toffler--even way back in 1979 when this book was published--prophesized that changes in communications technologies will change everything; note back then he saw the beginning of the rise of online services, 60+ channel cable TV, cheap desktop computers and home video systems, all over which have evolved into today's pubic Internet, 100+ channel digital cable TV and 200+ channel small-dish satellite TV, the modern desktop and desktop computer access the public Internet at over one megabit per second download speeds, and the rise of videocassette recorders, digital video recorders and DVD players.

All these changes have devastated the MSM; people can now time shift their TV programming, watch movies at home only 4-5 months after theatrical release, and get information that the MSM can't cover or ignore for political reasons. The really scary part for newspapers is that the likes of eBay and Craigslist are starting to devestate classified ads, one of the few remaining moneymakers for the newspapers.

[Beagle8U]

"GWB may be a freeper. LOL"

Thats not as far fetched as you may think.

I'm sure that the RNC reads FR often.

[txroadhawg]

Has Dick Chaney personally informed the press? Or are they still in the dark.

[SittinYonder]

Do any of you subscribe to newspapers? If so, is it a community (small daily or weekly in your hometown) or is it a major daily newspaper?