The Media's Slow Suicide
August 16th 2008 00:28
The mainstream media is slowly committing suicide. They are doing this by reporting, or failing to report, on things that the Internet has covered better than them.
The biggest evidence of this is the John Edwards affair story. Yes, the National Enquirer broke it first, but they also have one of the biggest surviving news bureaus. It was constant research and pressure on the Internet that forced him to try to get ahead of the story by coming out and telling his version. Then, despite his attempt to frame it, the pressure is still coming from the Internet.
Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, took a $75,000 check from Countrywide Home Loans, the mortgage company that made a lot of the skanky loans that we’re all suffering from now. Several other Democrats got sweetheart mortgages from said company. It’s ONLY being covered on the Internet and a few conservative talk shows.
Barack Obama says in Germany that wealth needs to be more evenly distributed, and again, it’s only reported on the Internet and conservative talk shows.
The reason the media will die because of this is that people, or the neighbors they talk to, will go and check the Internet. People are smart enough to find sites they trust. They are smart enough to corroborate the crazier stuff. If GMA does a story that is slanted hard toward Obama, millions of people go look up the full story.
Why do you think Obama is in a dead heat in the popular vote despite the media’s love affair with him? Because people are fact checking. They are seeing his ideas for taxation and wealth redistribution.
Eventually, people will turn off their TV news altogether and just go to the Internet. Newspapers are already feeling it big time. It’s why they didn’t have the manpower to even go verify the John Edward’s story, if they wanted to.
Personally, unless the media goes back to “just the facts,” and “all the facts,” I don’t care if the big three turn off their news. It’s not worth the airwaves it travels on.
The biggest evidence of this is the John Edwards affair story. Yes, the National Enquirer broke it first, but they also have one of the biggest surviving news bureaus. It was constant research and pressure on the Internet that forced him to try to get ahead of the story by coming out and telling his version. Then, despite his attempt to frame it, the pressure is still coming from the Internet.
Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, took a $75,000 check from Countrywide Home Loans, the mortgage company that made a lot of the skanky loans that we’re all suffering from now. Several other Democrats got sweetheart mortgages from said company. It’s ONLY being covered on the Internet and a few conservative talk shows.
Barack Obama says in Germany that wealth needs to be more evenly distributed, and again, it’s only reported on the Internet and conservative talk shows.
The reason the media will die because of this is that people, or the neighbors they talk to, will go and check the Internet. People are smart enough to find sites they trust. They are smart enough to corroborate the crazier stuff. If GMA does a story that is slanted hard toward Obama, millions of people go look up the full story.
Why do you think Obama is in a dead heat in the popular vote despite the media’s love affair with him? Because people are fact checking. They are seeing his ideas for taxation and wealth redistribution.
Eventually, people will turn off their TV news altogether and just go to the Internet. Newspapers are already feeling it big time. It’s why they didn’t have the manpower to even go verify the John Edward’s story, if they wanted to.
Personally, unless the media goes back to “just the facts,” and “all the facts,” I don’t care if the big three turn off their news. It’s not worth the airwaves it travels on.
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