[ClearCase_guy]

You might be right about the networks. Their reign as money-making businesses may be ending. But what is very clear to me is that the broader entity -- the MSM -- has successfully picked the nominees for both political parties for the 2008 presidential race. Conservatives in America exerted no power at all. The media set the rules, picked the winners, and sold the ad space.

We're not winning this game, no matter how often we tell ourselves we are.

[abb]

We're not winning this game, no matter how often we tell ourselves we are.

Perhaps we lose this battle. But I refuse to believe progress hasn't been made in the long-term war against the Drive-By Media. The facts speak for themselves.

[Milhous]

We're not winning this game, no matter how often we tell ourselves we are.

Many FReepers seem to hold an unrealistic expectation for mass media to simply fade into oblivion Thursday next. Political technology takes decades to come to fruition. By the same token takes it decades for said political technology to finally fade into oblivion. You can blame too many vested interests in the status quo on all sides of the aisle.

IMHO today's conservatives follow in the footsteps of conservative forebearers in fighting the mass media political machine originally invented by FDR. Today's conservatives face a much brighter future than those long gone conservatives ever dreamed of. The Spirit Of Allegiance recently made a salient point that American politics morphed into a conversation.

The Cluetrain Manifesto

(just substitute “Political Party” whereever it reads “Company”)

95 Theses
http://www.cluetrain.com/

Opening Pandora's Box changes American politics forever. Perhaps only a few on the fringes see the full implications of this paradigm shift with its inevitable future. Note how our political opponents give big sloppy kisses to new media events such as Yearly Kos.