Florida Freepers, after banging our collective heads against the wall re. the Florida DNC press, sent news to friends and sympathetic (non-socialist) groups in Florida over the internet - through FR, e-mails. It worked.
A poster pre-election 2002 summed up the GOP problem with the press: Tom Delay was on the radio down here in Houston last Friday. He said that the Republicans are blue in their collective faces trying to get stories like this out to the public. The Washington press corp refuses to publish one wit about such things like this story exposing Terry McAuliffe.
All through the clinton years the media displayed a stunning willingness to believe exactly what the dems and clinton administration would say.
Earlier on the thread was a brief diversion as some of us recalled the Stephens/Riady/Huang connection to the clinton White House.
I clearly recall as these events were revealed being shocked at how the media remained stonefaced as they would report the story always taking the tone that the dems say there is no "there there" and besides the American People want to trust and believe their president and picking on all of these appointees amounted to harrassment, yada yada yada.
Now we have an administration who is constantly having their statements twisted and is presented in news reports as not worthy of trust. We are told it is the American Way to scrutinize American Presidents. Fine. Scrutinize should not be distortion. And where was this scrutiny with clinton.
Fortunately truth has a way of percolating to the top--perhaps not as quickly as some of us would like--but it will always out.
But much evil is done by putting these false reports out. Witness the cretins at DU and this other forum linked here (Calpundit). Once the false propaganda is out some will always believe it no matter the debunking.