"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The downside of this is, electronic media is so instantaneously rewritable.
There are benefits to hardcopy publishing.
The Pharaohs were into revising history too but they had to hire masons with hammers and chisels.
All the MSM needs to do is to purge its archives.
Posterity needs better than a virtual, editable, censorable audit trail through the ages.
I don’t think it’s the liberalism that’s killing the newspapers. They have been liberal for generations and they tend to cater to a liberal urban audience. What’s killing them is that they’re an anachronism. Anyone under 40 and quite a few people older than that just don’t need them anymore. We’ve got the internet and we know how to get more news online than we ever could out of a daily paper, so why should we pay for something that clutters up our homes day after day? The fact that many of us don’t agree with their editorial slant is just one more reason not to subscribe, but my guess would be that the profits at the few conservative newspapers out there are down too.
Unfortunately the OS has lots of bugs.
The new media cannot fully trust the services of the OS but without it where would the majority of the new media be? A few new media applications have taken over a lot of the work that the OS is suppose to do; but most new media applications still depend upon links to the MSM -- the links include multiple sources until "the rest of the story" is found.
Through the efforts of the new media we finally have a free press again. Not since the days of multiple newspapers in most cities have we had a free press IMO -- a time before TV.
Besides bugs the OS also has myriad viruses (liberal biases), worms (MSM employees who "want to make a difference"), trojans (activists posing as "reporters"), and just plain lazy dolts.
Long live the the new media!
BTW, I first accessed WorldNetDaily about ten years ago. Mr. Farah and his wife were running WND from their home in the Sacramento area if I remember correctly. I felt compelled to email the WND web site to tell them that they had a winner. Mr. Farah responded with a nice reply with a little info about his efforts.
Here is a good start I believe.
The MSM is dying, but Joe Farah is an idiot. He got an early head start in the New Media, but then he locked WND into a tiny niche that is shrinking even now.