You said you weren't familiar with the blogosphere. You might not be familiar with talk radio either. It is a source of information. It's not a good idea to make it the only source, but it is definitely true that one can find out about things the mainstream media have either decided is not "news," or that it's news they'd rather you didn't hear.
If it wasn't for alternatives, would anyone have ever heard about the Swift Boat Veterans at all? They spend a hundred thousand or so running ads in three states. Before the internet, it would have dropped like a rock down a well, with no way to see the ad other than in those limited areas. Maybe local papers would have covered it. The race would belong to the 527s with the multimillion dollar budgets.
Without the internet and talk radio, Clinton would have gone on unscathed, and Monica would probably be in a rubber room.
Maybe some people might think that would have been a good thing. I don't.
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- "Distributed processing" as a metaphor for the new media
- Mark Steyn observes the effect of the internet
- Yet another article on this subject...
- A good example of the process in action...
- Systems analysis
- Old Media: Kerry's biggest fans
- Comments from Belmont Club
- The days of the 'dead tree Press' are probably numbered
- Fed up with corporate radio as well...
- re: "Distributed processing" as a metaphor for the new media
- Old media loosing market and revenues