[Tacis]

The Krugman quote is wonderful and will be repeated down the years, not for what it says but for what it doesn't say. This ultra-left winger talks about Fox and talk radio letting out the message of normal Americans. Implicit in that position is the fact that traditional liberal media, the only game in town until recently, DIDN'T let this message out, censored it. Krugman confirms what most of us have known since before Georgie Jessel compared the NYT to Pravda, the old time media has had a pinko anti-normal American bias for years. Alas, as these papers go out of business, the resources will go to other business activities that will make greater profits. The workers, i.e., the presstitutes will be able to find work at Salon or other commie-pinko outfits or, more likely, turn their coats and work for the American team.

[backhoe]

Peacerose, I'll send links to this & Rat Chat to the usual suspects in my mass email list. They'll get seen.

Tacis mentioned:

This ultra-left winger talks about Fox and talk radio letting out the message of normal Americans. Implicit in that position is the fact that traditional liberal media, the only game in town until recently, DIDN'T let this message out, censored it.

Like usual, all the writers piling on Rush, talk(back) Radio, and the average Joe got it half-right, and missed the bigger picture entirely...

Rush is just part of an army of conservative & libertarian hosts out there- Boortz, Elder, Medved, Reagan, Hannity... and what they do is not just put out information the "media" doesn't want to mention, they educate and entertain.

But there's more they missed- the web is combining with talk radio so people with web access can get information, stories, refutations faster than they ever could before.

I first saw this happen in the spring with the "President's picture & How Awful That Was" trying to get traction, and failing, and the attempted morph to "What Did Bush Know?! And When Did He Know It?! failing the same way. As soon as those stories were propagated by a compliant and complict media, the radio show switchboards lit up with angry callers who has stories countering the spin... which had to come off the web; it was too fast to be in print.