The Blogosphere at War

Here is a very interesting post by Belmont Club on the subject of how the Blogsphere fits in as part of the war against the Islamofascists. For if there is a truism which has come about in the last few years, it is that this is as much about information warfare as it is about soldiers on the battlefield. America's enemies have been very cognizant of the fact that they can use our own dinosaur media against us. In the past, when even on the battlefield we had achieved our objectives, the American left and the establishment media conspired to defeat our cause, as was the case in Vietnam. At that time, of course, there was no alternative media to which regular Americans could turn to hear a message other than retreat and defeat. And because America is the living refutation of the Angry Leftist fantasy, one can always count on them and their press lapdogs to come down on the side of America's enemies. America's defeat is their ultimate ambition.

But today the playing field is different. Because while the old media is still working to defeat America with all the tools at its disposal, regular citizens now have the option of turning to the new media as an alternative to the stale and increasingly unreliable propaganda organs which have dominated the public arena of ideas for so long. And while the Internet is still relatively new in this respect, there can be little doubt about the falling circulation numbers for old media newspapers and the collapse of ratings at the major networks that continues unabated. Americans are voting with their feet for the news and information that they prefer. More and more it is the alternative media on which they rely. Belmont Club looks at the future prospects for this sea change and how it will affect the war against radical Islam.