[TomGuy]

he certainly ratified an end to the era in which traditional media set the agenda for national political journalism.

No he hasn't.

It was the National Enquirer that brought the Clinton affair to the public. Drudge may have had it online, but the Interenet was still new and had comparatively few users. It was the NE with 11 million paid circulation and front page racks at nearly every grocery and convenience story that brought the Clinton affair to the public. The old media had sat on it, had known about it, but had refused to report on it. The NE forced it into the pubic and that forced the old media to being reporting on it.

The NE has done the same with the Edwards affair. You can bet the old media knew (or at least highly suspected) Edwards had extra-curricular things going on. They just chose not to report it.

[Recall nearly a year ago the stories that the LA Times was sitting on 'a sex scandal' involving 'one of the major candidates'? Was this it, or is there another scandal out there waiting to hit? Only the NE knows for sure. lol]

[SerpentDove]

The Enquirer also brought the Jesse Jackson affair into the light, I believe.

[Carry_Okie]

Most of the gloating I see on FR at the troubles of the MSM are wishful thinking.

After all, it wasn't the the new media that gave us a choice of John McCain and Barack Obama this year. I still think Hillary is in this thing and they might have been giving her cover from six months of scrutiny. We'll see.