Posted on 10/09/2012 11:14:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren is being shaped by the efforts of a blogger, Professor William Jacobson, of Legal Insurrection. This very high profile race reveals how important the internet has become to political discourse.
Once upon a time, only newspapers could launch inquiries and crusades that determined the fate of powerful politicians, but now a single, intelligent, skilled, and determined individual like Jacobson can take on the might of the liberal establishment in Massachusetts, arguably the state most dominated by the academic and machine Democrat factions of the left, and give them a serious fight.
As most readers of AT know, Legal Insurrection has been pressing the inquiry into Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American ancestry, which preceded her leap into the major leagues of American legal education. More recently, Jacobson discovered that when she moved to Massachusetts to join the Harvard faculty, Warren never bothered to acquire a license to practice law. Many law professors, Warren included, have a lucrative side business as consultants, often writing briefs.
What happened next was a classic left wing move: generation of a meme that would enable the media establishment to ignore the scandal as discredited. For instance, in 1992, when Bill Clinton's former mistress Gennifer Flowers provided the tapes of Bill Clinton's phone calls to her, the campaign hired LA private eye (and subsequent guest of the Federal Bureau of Prisons) Anthony Pellicano to declare the tapes "doctored." He was cited as an "expert" by the media, which then refused to even consider the philandering behavior which was to prove so imporant to his second term in office.
In Warren's legal license case, an even more devious approach was taken.
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I think everyone is forgetting that Romney was ELECTED Governor....in Kennedy territory!!!
Who reads newspapers anymore?
The liberals DESTROYED that media. No one believes what they print and so less and less people read them.
And it will never come back.
Bump
Still, there is something to be said for Elizabeth Warren. In America, you can be whatever you want to be. And Elizabeth Warren pushes the envelope by being whatever you want to say you are. Want to be an American Indian? Just say you are one. You want to practice law in another state without a license? Just say you have one. She proves you can be a huckster and a success in a Liberal state. Look at Obama. He wants to be an egghead, and he only has to say he is one. No grades, no papers, no actual oratory, or coherence is needed. Just say you are a genius and it works for Liberals.
Although the yellow pages are still produced the greater part of their advertisers moved to the Internet as fast as they could. You could see that happening in 1996!
Most newspapers and magazines weren't satisfied with the money they had and demanded and got a government subsidy from the federal government for editorial matter ~ which could be sent cheaper than the advertising content. A complete science grew up around how that content might be measured with ever greater precision.
Worse, newspaper and magazine publishers were so greedy they held to this theory that it was better to force the customer to read through the entire periodical than to give him a useful index! If the post office hadn't required indices/tables of contents with page numbers the publishers would have never done it.
The Yellow Pages were highly structured with both logical contents sections, complete indices and page numbers fore, aft, and in between sometimes top and bottom.
The methods and practices of the publishers when it came to filling the 'news hole' are something I'll never miss ~
Brown +4 in today’s poll.
You can be what you want to be until it comes to checking boxes on state and Federal forms, that is.
I have to respectfully disagree with you on this point.
If liberal opinion killed newspapers, you would have to explain how legions of liberal broadcasters stay on the air.
Liberals have made a mucked-up mess of much of our society, but the decline of newspapers is truly just a result of technology.
In delivering news as it happens, they simply can’t compete with TV and the internet.
In advertising, which is where newspapers make their money, they can’t compete with the internet. Who is going to buy a print ad when they can advertise for free through e-mail and craiglist?
Newspapers are shrinking as did the carriage trade, saddlery, carbon paper, and now the post office. It’s just a sign of the times.
I don’t know. A newspaper is still a pretty efficient way of delivering information. If you really want to know about a story, the 30 seconds they cover it on tv is not much. I dropped our little newspaper because it was blatantly pro-Democrat. They could get me back tomorrow if they’d just get out of supporting the Democrats.
Even the used cars ads in the paper are more honest than the editors.
You are right on the mark.
It's late in the day. thanks for the softball question. Simple answer, subsidy.
Rich people interested in steering public opinion buy interests in news media. They are not in it for the money earned by the media, often it's a loss. They are in it for the money and power they garner by swaying public opinion. Example: wealthy oil rich cartel Arabs would prefer Americans not exploit American oil reserves. they would like to encourage Americans to waste money on unproductive wind and solar technologies while they pursue jacking up the price of oil.
The media is corrupt.
It's late in the day. thanks for the softball question. Simple answer, subsidy.
Rich people interested in steering public opinion buy interests in news media. They are not in it for the money earned by the media, often it's a loss. They are in it for the money and power they garner by swaying public opinion. Example: wealthy oil rich cartel Arabs would prefer Americans not exploit American oil reserves. they would like to encourage Americans to waste money on unproductive wind and solar technologies while they pursue jacking up the price of oil.
The media is corrupt.
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