GoldenSt8r
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« on: November 15, 2004, 03:56:46 PM » |
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First of all, a correction to Michael Barone's article.
''CBS, admirably, posted the documents on its websites, and within 14 hours bloggers -- led by frontpage.com, powerlineblog.com and littlegreenfootballs.com -- had demonstrated that these purported 1972 documents had been produced on Microsoft Word. ''
It was not frontpage.com. It was freerepublic.com.
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How important was the erosion of the Networks ability to control the news in 2004?
What the Networks have lost is the ability to interpret the news and the ability to control the complaints. We the people were formally independent islands of outrage, but no longer. We would hear something we disagreed with, and if we felt strongly enough we could write or call in our complaints. But we were never heard. Now, we have the ability to discover almost instantly that many, many other people had a similar response, and our combined outrage has the force and energy to turn our individual complaints into a roar that must be heard.
How much did Rathergate help Bush?
The main way that it helped Bush is that for 12 days during a critical month in the campaign, Kerry was all but ignored.
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