In computerland, when we get stuck on a problem, we would call in other people. The more eyes looking at a problem the better. You get a different perspective to attack a problem.

  With bloggerland, we get millions of eyes looking at a problem. One of those says "hey, did anyone think of this?" Might be a blogger, might be a commenter. Then it works it way up the chain of bloggerland.

  Yes, the msm is threatened, they no longer have total control of the narrative. 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

-Dave

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them-Rick Roberts

"Many of the citizen journalists have large axes to grind."

And MSM journalists don't?

Priceless...  the MSM hates the fact that they actually have to do their job now that there is an alternate base to keep them honest.  They all think that merely putting their thoughts down on paper somehow makes them impervious to scrutiny.

Just what is Obama's agenda? What exactly is his change?  I'm sure on our computer screens we see this election at a 30,000 feet. But, when talking to people at the workplace, or over hearing conversations, there are quite a few people that do believe Palin banned books, and that Obama has a world of experience. Now, how did that happen? um. MSM.. shocker.

 Republicans at my work place are always shouted down, and made fun of to try to dispute anything. Is this the society that the liberals and Obama will bring?

 A friend of mine and a co-worker, who is hispanic; was called a racist by a fellow white co-worker yesterday because she did not support Obama, and was going to vote for McCain. The next morning they posted all pro-Obama printed out ad slogans all over her cube. She felt intimidated to take them down. I went over and ripped them all down, called my boss, and said enough is enough, get control of your employees.

What happened to American courage? We should not be intimidated. Stick to your beliefs and be strong. Sarah Palin does.

The race game seems to be fueled by the the liberals.  Why does MSNBC have a column called "Race in America"??

 What's next? Report your neighbor via website because they 'make too much money' or are 'not patriotic'.. Scary indeed.

The MSM and other left-wing extremists are very upset. They are losing control of news content. They are being exposed for what they are, the trenchcoat is gone.

At the table of news, the MSM has long taken the good seats for themselves, gorging on the abundance. Us bloggers came upon the scene to 'clean up'. Sometimes it was crumbs, BUT sometimes among the crumbs were nuggets of gold! WE were doing THEIR job!

As the MSM became more gluttonous (biased), they left whole plates untouched - much of which were the best stories. Today, we are forced to ask, 'did they do this intentionally?' The answer has become painfully clear - yes.

I am not surprised that 'professional' journalists are quick to minimize the blogosphere because they are obviously are threatened,  but I wonder why so many reporters have their own blog? Makes ya wonder, eh?

www.ArmchairEnergist...

...is because the MSM failed us a long time ago.  If they'd been doing their job, nobody would take it seriously.  The emergence of "talk radio" should have been a wake-up call.  They didn't get it.  They didn't get the Internet either.  I think when the history of this period is more objectively written in 50 years or so, "Rathergate" will be cited as the point where the MSM officially died as the official arbiter of what is news.

The Fourth Estate better be careful for the Fifth Estate has arrived, and in force! The MSM has long described itself as the "watchdog" of society. Now they face a new "watchdog" of their own and they don't like it. They are just as critical over being examined as the people in the public and privet sectors whom the Fourth Estate has "investigated" and "reported" on for so long. Talk about hypocrisy, they are being critically examined and they hate that, yet this is exactly what they do to others!

MSM, how does is feel to have a new-age watchdog reporting your every mistake, false report, and blatant biasness like you have been doing to others for centuries? It sucks being the hunted instead of the hunter, doesn't it? Well, you better get use to it because it's not going to stop.

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

Mr. Limbaugh nailed it when he said that the "drive by media is the only business in America that tells its customers 'Screw you'!" 

In every other business, the customer is always right and their criticisms are guideposts to corporate success.  But the media?  Their attitude is "how DARE they criticize US!!!"  And this is eventually what is going to kill them. 

I have tuned out.  My parents cannot figure out why I leave the room, or even the house, when it is time for them to watch ABC World News Tonight (as they still do religiously) when I visit them.  From the time I was 11 onwards I used to watch, then I quit in disgust when I was 21.  And they are SHOCKED when I tell them I rarely, if ever, watch television news.  I can't tell you the last time I bought a newspaper.  If the San Antonio Express News or the Houston Chronicle went under tomorrow, the media would all cry, and cry, and cry some more, but not me, for bad businesses deserve to fail, even in spite of the stupid bailout. 

Can't wait to see them all fold.

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

We tend to think of "revolutionary" developments as things of the past. The discovery of fire... metal-working... flight.... There is an innate feeling that everything has been discovered. The head of the patent office wanted to close it in the '20s, I believe, because he thought there would be no more "inventions."

But if you think about it, what made the printing press such an acknowledged world-changing influence? The fact that it put knowledge in the hands of ordinary people, right? But it was only half the equation. A one-way telephone, if you will.

The internet, and blogging, has completed the equation. Now, practically any citizen can acquire, and spread, information with less and less "supervision."

Does this lead to abuses? Certainly. But, for the first time, it gives us an ability to research and disseminate "facts" on our own, with no "Big Brother" holding our hands and guiding us.

The right of a "free press" could not be fully realized until the advent of the Internet, or something like it. Until now, the old adage that "freedom of the press only applies to those who own a press" was sadly true. We were beholden to our "betters" to inform us about what was important, and what wasn't.

But not anymore. And the MSM doesn't like it.

Why am I not surprised?

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

What insightful conclusions by the panel! I suppose that it would never occur to the journalists that it is they who are continuing to present an inferior product: "much of it stinks; it's terrible." It's true that journalists use our language better than most of us, use proper grammar, and construct sentences and paragraphs well. Many journalists, however, harbor the mistaken notion that their beliefs and agendas trump the truth. When they continually edit out the truth, justifying its omission with good reasons (to them), and not the real reason, what do they expect? For example, where are the Obama experience stories involving his work at Annenberg? Are journalists just stupid? Journalists go after stories that fit their worldview with a vingeance. Where are they and their editors when the stories don't fit their worldview? They are often missing.