Posted on 10/15/2002 9:42:38 PM PDT by UltraConservative
Consumers vote with their tuner or their mouse, instantly. They vote to listen to conservatives and to ignore liberals. The easier it is to vote, the better the conservatives do.
That's why the major media should be so scared. Fox News broke the monopoly of the left on televised news. Folks are voting with their remotes and, for the left, it ain't pretty.
It will be slower in TV than in radio or the Internet. The startup costs for a network are enormous compared to the cost of starting a blog or a new syndicated show. But the horse is out of the barn (even in TV) and it will never go back.
</strained metaphors> :)
"conservative monsters like FreeRepublic.Com"
"conservative monsters like FreeRepublic.Com"
"conservative monsters like FreeRepublic.Com"
There. I liked the way that looked so much that I thought I would repeat it a few times.
They haven't found a way yet,but I am sure busy little liberal minds are trying to find a way to destroy conservative media from the courts. It is one of the few ways they have found to circumvent rule by the people.
We had been hearing noises like this for a long time, but the practical effects never seemed to materialize. No matter how many web sites or talk radio hosts there were, the liberal New York media still seemed to control the agenda. That flipped some time in the last year or two, probably right around the time of The Great Chad Wars. The media was Hell-bent on electing Gore president, and I thought they were well on their way to doing it. All the horns were blowing the same notes; as soon as we count all the votes, Gore will win. It was the same kind of media mow-down of the truth that we've seen on so many issues. Usually it worked. It didn't work that time, though. And it hasn't worked since. Remember the Time magazine cover with a picture of the White House and the word "Enron" plastered across the page? That whole "Let's get him with this" effort by the New York media fell flat on its face. So did the "Bush knew!" fiasco a few months later. And now Iraq. This web site has documented the extraordinary lengths that most of the U.S. media have gone to in order to discredit Bush, to paint him as some kind of warmongering tool of the oil companies, and so on. Last week the New York Times had to fake their own poll results in order to keep up the facade. The public is just not buying their braying anymore. The New York media is still a powerful force, but it no longer has the ability to deliver "the people" to the Democratic Party as needed to win the wars in Washington. People are on to that game, and they have sought out -- and found -- sufficient other news sources that they can no longer be fooled by spiking stories, fabricating polls, slanting the language... and all the other tricks the media have so successfully employed over the years to push this country leftward and to protect Democratic lawbreakers. Their successful defense of the scumbucket William Jefferson Clinton may be the high point of their influence. It has been going down since. This election may be close. The next one won't be. The one after that... the Democrats will wonder what hit them. The media they choose to read will still be blowing their horn. But they'll be the only ones left reading it. |
Hey Jim, you've created a monster :)
The left will continue in its attempt to tear down the alternative media that the right has championed. If it can't control or compete, it wishes to destroy. But the tide has turned toward true democratization of the media.
Good article, save for one small error that makes a huge difference. What's accruing on the Internet is not "democratization". To those that look through the narrow scope of politics it appears that way. Especially since the left is the first to take a major hit. Step to the outside and look back in and the picture is that of free-market competition.
The general public isn't moved by politics of left and right nearly as much as they're moved by good and bad, right and wrong, justice and injustice, dishonesty and honesty. The general public on the Internet makes that increasingly more pronounced from one day to the next. The market for information responds to the demand.
The more fully integrated honesty the general public acquires about themselves and the world that touches them the more they scorn politics that suck objectivity out and insert irrationality in. Out with the lesser of evils. In with the better of two or three or five goods. The free-market competition of cyberspace rules with fully integrated honesty the final victor.
That's very true. If you ever tried to post at a wannabe site like DU they ban you in a New York minute. FR bans may ban disruptors, but not for posting real arguements but for posting disruptive usually anti-American opinion pieces from non-legit sources and never defending the crap they do post. FR overall has a base of posters who are based in reality with a sprinkling of nuts. Left-wing sites are completely overrun by the extreme wingnuts and only the most dillusional opinions stick around. They sit around and bitch about how the corporate-run newspapers like The New York Times is nothing but a mouth piece for, get this, the GOP.
This election may be close. The next one won't be. The one after that... the Democrats will wonder what hit them. The media they choose to read will still be blowing their horn. But they'll be the only ones left reading it.
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