I'm an ordinary citizen of these United States and for years we have been saying the news media as it was is finished. Even wrote to rather, brocaw and jennin's and told them so. Anyone with half a brain could have seen this a long time ago. Good riddance to them all.
As well as being a gathering place for conservatives to express their political views, Free Republic has since its founding day tirelessly sought to expose the bias of the MSM, it is one of the reasons I'm still here after six years.
I used to string for drudge when he had 70k hits a day, it was a very small percentage of the population then who used the internet as their primary news source. To see Rather forced out was a champagne moment for me, to see the demise of the readerships of the NYT and WashPost are truly wonderful, they are beneath contempt in our eyes but now that the rest of the country is catching on to their bullshit we can consider one of our founding missions a huge continuing success.
When the POTUS is talking about the demise of the MSM in favor of the internet and blogoshere we have reached a watershed moment, the sad irony here of course is that the MSM will refuse to make a single comment on any of this story...lol