Thoughts on the decline of the liberal media monopoly and the future of the GOP.
Peggy Noonan looks at the effects of New Media on the Sam Alito hearings and how The Angry Left and the Democrats are no longer able to control the story as they once did in the days of three networks and Walter Cronkite. The old media have lost their monopoly. The rise of talk radio, Fox and most importantly the Internet have changed the information landscape beyond recognition. Today one can get opinion and information from thousands of radio stations and millions of blogs across the Internet. There is no monopoly. There is, instead, a plethora of options from which one can choose which run across the spectrum from left to right and all points in between. In such an environment we see true debate and discussion.
And perhaps most important is the fact that Americans in the silent majority can now talk and discuss with each other the events of the day and their importance, thus bypassing the filters and walls which were previously erected by The Elite Media Monoculture. All across the Internet, regular Americans of all walks of life are discussing the ideas of freedom. From the meaning of individualism to free market economics to social change to national defense, Americans are proving that they are interested in these ideas and are willing and able to promote their differing points of view. The old media put up those walls to prevent such dangerous ideas from germinating and gaining traction. But now those walls are down. When regular Americans can talk with each other using e-mail, blogs and Internet chat rooms, they can form a consensus and move in an organized fashion to effect change; something that was previously impossible. And that change has not been in the direction of more leftism.
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