[Tench_Coxe]

My advice is to try and get some kind of contingency framework together.
Why? Because the MSM is not going to take being eclipsed lightly. I predict you will see more attempts like the LA times episode, if not outright attempts to use the legislative process to limit what can and can't be said on the Internet.
Why legislative? Because there are politicians out there who also don't like the idea of being scrutinized too closely. And if the 'blogosphere' is truly becoming as powerful as surmised, it will soon be viewed as a threat by those who prefer to operate out of smoky back-rooms and drive policy by a wink and a handshake.

[bvw]

They don't have the resources anymore. Not that they will not try. But right now -- too many wagon trains have left Media City -- and they have too many fronts to try to hold. A totally hollow sycamore held up only by the rus toxicans vine surrounding it -- so empty and bleak even the squirrels have abbandoned it.

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