Reply #24: The interesting question is "Does netroots matter?" [View All]

[MindMatter]

This whole environment in evolving rapidly. Any politician who thinks the MSM is still driving the bus is making a big mistake.

Just a tiny example. This morning, NPR (a solid part of the MSM) led with the news of Obama receiving the three SDs from Hawaii. And they followed that that leaves him just 49 to go.

We know where that information came from: http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/ No doubt about that.

When the Iraq war started, the MSM fell into the Pentagon game of not really tallying the death toll. But that all changed when the MSM discovered http://icasualties.org/oif. ICasualties had the real news, not the Pentagon. demconwatch has the real facts about the race, not the campaigns.

Almost every day, you see the MSM play a youtube video as part of their coverage of a story.

We are watching the endgame for traditional media. They have mostly eliminated their news gathering/vetting capability and now hire little more than personalities to read the news or argue about the news. They are coming to depend on the netroots as the source of information. I have one word for them: disintermediation.

If they do not add any value to the process, they will disappear.