OPEN LETTER TO THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA

We are NOT Amateurs and we are going to kick your butts.

Posted on 09/11/2004 7:26:18 PM PDT by Pukin Dog

I don't spend a lot of time over at FreeRepublic, but I respect the place because it's not too different than the places I hang out on. The conservative Blogsphere tends to be a very friendly place for those of us who have grown tired of The Elite Media Monoculture and need a place from which to fight back. Places like FreeRepublic, RightNation and many, many others are a critical force in the new media because they bring together the regular people and allow them to share ideas and information. In this open letter to the "Main Stream Media" a Freeper called Pukin Dog offers his view of the disdain which CBS has for the Blogsphere and people "in their pajamas" who are working to offer an alternative view of the universe. For the dinosaur media, it is not a pretty picture.

We have watched you for years try to tell us how to think, what to think, who to vote for and what to believe based solely on your own agenda. In past years, you have come to think of yourselves as the fourth branch of government, the movers and shapers of opinion and the arbiters of truth.

In case you have not been watching, America is sick and tired of you. We are turning away from you in record numbers. Your audience and readership is declining faster than you can say the word ‘bias’, and instead of recognizing the trend, you have only become further entrenched and determined to force society to play by your rules.

Technology has allowed us to ignore you, and in many cases, replace you altogether. I grew up watching Walter Cronkite every night, not yet aware of his agenda, his bias and his overwhelming desire to turn the nation against its leaders unless they agreed with him. I saw him replaced by the most dishonest, agenda-driven anchorman this nation has ever produced. That Dan Rather is one of you should be enough to make you feel dirty.

You believe yourselves to be solely qualified to pontificate on the day-to-day events going on around the world as if journalism school gives you a special insight into the truth. When I was in college, people went to J-school only if they flunked out of business school and did not want to become teachers.

Well guess what?

The world is on to you.